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By  Authority  of  a  Joint  Resolution  of  the  City  Council, 
Approved  October  14,  1898. 


RICHMOND : 

O.   E.   FLANHART  PRINTING  COMPANY. 
1898. 


Committee  on  Accounts  and  Printing. 


JOHN  T.  WEST,  Chairman, 

.IAS.  BAHEN, 

SOL.  L.  BLOOMBERG, 

A.  B.  FERGTTSSON, 

J.  H.  LAAVDER. 


Committee  on  Ordinances. 


SOL.  L.  BLOOMBERG,  Chairman, 
G.  K.  POLLOCK, 
CHAS.  R.  WINSTON, 
SOL.  CTJTCHINS, 
CLAY  DREWRY. 


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THE  CHARTER 

OF  THE 

o<GITY  OF  RICHMONDt» 

As  Provided  by  the  Act  of  the  General  As- 
sembly of  Virginia,  Approved  May  24, 
1870,  and  the  Acts  Amenda- 
tory Thereof. 


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■~o  (The  marginal  references  are  to  the  Acts  of  the  General  Assembly 
^  by  which  the  particular  section  has  been  amended.  Where  there  is 
•^    no  marginal  reference  the  section  remains  as  originally  adopted. ) 


CHAPTER  1. 


ELECTIONS. 


1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  general  assembly,  That  the  territory 
contained  within  the  limits  prescribed  by  the  act  passed  Feb- 
ruary thirteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-seven,  and  en- 
titled an  act  to  extend  and  define  the  boundaries  of  the  city  of 
Richmond,  and  by  any  act  hereafter  passed  by  the  general  as- 
sembly of  this  State,  shall  be  deemed  and  taken  as  the  city  of 
Richmond;  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  for  all 
purposes  for  which  towns  and  cities  are  incorporated  in  this 
Commonwealth,  shall  continue  to  be  one  body  politic,  in  fact 
and  in  name,  under  the  style  and  denomination  of  The  City  of 
Richmond,  and  as  such  shall  have,  exercise,  and  enjoy  all  the 
rights,  immunities,  powers,  and  privileges,  and  be  subject  to 
all  the  duties  and  obligations  now  incumbent  and  appertaining 
to  said  city  as  a  municipal  incorporation. 

2.  The  administration  and  government  of  the  said  city  shall 
be  vested  in  one  principal  officer,  to  be  styled  the  mayor;    two        ^1^ 
boards,  to  be  called  respectively  the  common  council  and  board 
of  aldermen  of  the  city  of  Richmond;   and  in  such  other  boards 
and  officers  as  are  hereinafter  provided  for. 

3.  The  said  city  shall  be  divided  into  five  wards,  which  num- 
ber of  wards  the  city  council  hereafter  may  increase  as  they  may 
deem  it  expedient.     Every  such  division  shall  be  made  in  such 


p.  229. 


APF.  30  1908       210673 


manner  as  to  Include  an  equal  number  of  voters  in  each  ward, 
as  nearly  as  conveniently  may  be  consistent  with  the  well-defined 
limits  of  each  ward.     Until  such  revision  be  made,  the  boundary 
linos  of  wards  shall  remain  as  now  established. 
1869-70.  "*•  Whenever  any  special  (lection  shall  be  ordered  by  the  city 

p.  451.  council  for  any  object  not  provided  for  in  the  general  election 
laws  of  the  State,  they  shall  communicate  their  order  for  the 
same  to  the  judge  of  the  corporation  court,  and  the  same  pro- 
ceedings shall  be  had  as  are  provided  by  the  laws  of  the  State 
for  special  elections  to  fill  vacancies  in  any  municipal  office. 
-70.  5.  The   election   of   municipal    officers,    hereinafter   mentioned, 

p.  451.        shall  be  held  on  the  fourth  Thursday  in  May,  eighteen  hundred 
1870-1.        aml  seventy,  and  on  the  fourth  Thursday  in  May  in  every  second 
p.  326.        year  thereafter,   except  the  election  of  the  city  treasurer,   who 
shall  be  elected  on  the  said  Thursday  in  every  third  year  there- 
alter;    and  the  said  election  shall  be  conducted  under  the  pro- 
visions of  the  general  election  laws  of  the  State. 
lS69-~0  ^  *n  cases  °f  vacancies  arising  in  any  municipal  office  herein 

p.  451.  provided  to  be  filled  at  the  first  election  that  may  be  held  there- 
after in  said  city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  forthwith 
upon  the  happening  of  such  vacancy  or  vacancies,  to  certify  the 
fact  of  such  vacancy  or  vacancies  to  the  judge  of  the  corporation 
court,  who  shall  issue  his  writ  for  election  to  fill  such  vacancy 
or  vacancies  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  the  general  election 
laws  of  the  State. 
1869-70.  7.  The   mayor   and   the   members   of   the   city    council,    before 

p.  452.  entering  upon  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices,  shall  be  re- 
spectively sworn  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  this  State. 
Such  oaths  may  be  administered  to  the  mayor-elect  by  any  judge 
of  a  court  of  record  commissioned  to  hold  any  such  court  within 
said  city;  and  the  members  of  the  city  council  by  the  mayor, 
being  himself  first  sworn  as  aforesaid,  or  by  any  judge  of  any 
court  of  record  as  aforesaid;  and  a  certificate  of  such  oaths 
having  been  respectively  taken,  shall  be  filed  with  the  city 
clerk,  and  entered  upon  the  journal  of  the  city  council.  Every 
other  person  elected  or  appointed  to  any  office  under  this  act  or 
under  any  law  or  ordinance  of  the  city  council,  shall,  before  he 
enters  upon  the  duties  of  said  office,  take  and  subscribe  said 
oath,  and  such  other  oaths  as  may  be  required  by  law  or  ordi- 
nance, before  the  mayor  or  city  clerk,  the  said  clerk  having 
himself  been  first  sworn  by  said  mayor  or  a  judge  of  a  court  of 
record  as  aforesaid;  and  a  certificate  of  the  same  shall  be  filed 
in  the  office  of  said  city  clerk.  If  any  person,  elected  or  ap- 
pointed to  any  office  in  said  city,  shall  neglect  to  take  such  oath 
for  forty  days  after  receiving  notice  of  his  election  or  appoint- 
ment, or  shall  neglect,  for  the  like  space  of  time,  to  give  such 
securities  as  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  city  council,  as  here- 
inafter provided,  or  as  may  be  hereafter  required  by  any  law 
or  ordinance,  he  shall  be  considered  as  having  declined  such 
office,  and  the  same  shall  be  deemed  vacant;  and  whenever  any 


such  vacancy  shall  occur,  another  election  shall  be  ordered  or 
another  appointment  made,  according  to  the  directions  of  this 
act. 

CHAPTER  II. 

JIAYOK. 

8.  The  mayor  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the 
city  of  Richmond  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and  until  his  suc- 
cessor shall  be  elected,  and  qualify;  and  no  person  shall  be 
qualified  to  hold  the  office  of  mayor  except  such  as  shall  be 
qualified  to  hold  office  under  the  Constitution  of  this  State. 
His  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  the  city  council,  payable  at  stated 
periods;  and  he  shall  receive  no  other  compensation  or  emolu- 
ment whatsoever;  and  no  regulations  diminishing  such  com- 
pensation, after  it  has  been  once  fixed,  shall  be  made  to  take 
effect  until  after  the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  the  mayor 
then  in  office  shall  have  been  elected.  The  salary  of  the  mayor, 
when  fixed,  shall  so  continue  until  changed  by  the  city  council 
as  foresaid. 

9.  He  shall,  by  virtue  of  his  office,  possess  all  the  jurisdiction 
and  exercise  all  the  powers  and  authority,  in  criminal  cases,  of 
a  justice  of  the  peace  of  said  city,  in  addition  to  the  powers 
hereby  given  to  him  by  virtue  of  this  act,  or  that  may  hereafter 
be  given  to  him  by  virtue  of  any  other  act  of  assembly;  but  he 
shall  receive  no  fees  for  his  services  as  such  justice  of  the  peace. 

10.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  communicate  to  the  city  council 
annually,  as  soon  as  may  be  after  the  commencement  of  the 
fiscal  year,  and  oftener  if  he  shall  deem  it  expedient,  or  be  re- 
quired by  said  council,  a  general  statement  of  the  situation  and 
condition  of  the  city  in  relation  to  its  government,  finances,  and 
improvements,  with  such  recommendations  as  he  may  deem 
proper. 

11.  He  shall  exercise  a  constant  supervision  over  the  conduct 
of  all  subordinate  officers,  have  power  and  authority  to  investi- 
gate their  acts,  have  access  to  all  books  and  documents  in 
their  offices,  and  may  examine  said  officers  and  their  subordi- 
nates on  oath.  He  shall  also  have  power  to  suspend  or  remove 
such  officers  for  misconduct  in  office,  or  neglect  of  duty,  to  be 
specified  in  the  order  of  suspension  or  removal;  but  no  such 
removal  shall  be  made  without  reasonable  notice  to  the  officer 
complained  of,  and  an  opportunity  afforded  him  to  be  heard  in 
his  defence.  On  the  removal  or  suspension  of  such  officer  or 
officers,  the  mayor  shall  report  the  same,  with  his  reasons  there- 
for, to  the  city  council  at  their  next  stated  meeting. 

12.  In  case  of  the  absence  or  inability  of  the  mayor,  the  presi-         1874. 
dent  of  the  board  of  aldermen   shall   possess  the   same  powers       P-  229. 
and   discharge  the   municipal   duties  of  the  mayor  during  such 
absence  or  inability. 


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70.  L3.  In  case  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  (he  office  of  mayor,  the 

p.  462.       city  council  shall  elect  a  qualified  person  to  supply  the  vacancy 

until    the   flrsl    general    election    which    may   be   held    in   the   city 

thereafter,  when  the  vacancy  shall   be  tilled  by  election  for  the 

unexpired  term. 

CHAPTER  III. 

1  HE    CITY    ClirM'II, 

1-70.  it-  The   council  of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  be  formed  of 

P-  462.        two  distinct  branches;   one  of  these  shall  be  called  the  common 
[870-1.       council,  and  shall  consist  of  five  members  from  each  ward,  to  be 
elected  every  two  years;   the  other  shall  be  called  the  board  of 
.q-4         aldermen,  and  shall  consist  of  three  members  from  each  ward, 
p.  229.       t°  be  elected  every  four  years.    The  members  of  the  board  of 
common   council   and   aldermen   shall   be  residents   of   their   re- 
spective wards,  and  shall  not  be  less  than  twenty-one  years  of 
age.     They  shall  be  elected   by  the  electors  of  their  respective 
wards.     Upon  the  assembling  of    the  members  of    the  board  of 
aldermen,  so  elected,  they  shall  be  divided  into  two  equal  classes, 
to  be  numbered  by  lot.     The  term  of  service  of  the  members  of 
the  first  class  shall  expire  with  that  of  the  members  of  the  com- 
mon  council   elected   at  the  first  election   after   the  passage   of 
this  act,  and  the  term  of  service  of  the  members  of  the  second 
class   shall    expire   with   that   of   the    members   of   the   common 
council  elected  at  the  second  election  after  the  passage  of  this 
act,  and  this  alternation  shall  continue,  so  that  one-half  of  the 
members  of  the  board   of   aldermen   may  be  chosen   every  two 
years. 
|S74  15.  When  any  vacancy  shall  occur  in  either  branch  by  death, 

p.  230.        resignation,  removal  from  the  ward,  failure  to  qualify,  or  from 
2         any  other  cause,  the  branch  in  which  such  vacancy  occurs  shall 
p.  660!        elect   a   qualified   person   to   supply   the   vacancy   for   the   unex- 
pired term. 

16.  Each  branch  of  the  council  shall  also  elect  one  of  its  members 
to  act  as  president,  who  shall  preside  at  its  meetings  and  con- 
tinue in  office  two  years,  unless  it  be  to  fill  a  vacancy,  when  he 
shall  be  elected  for  the  unexpired  term.  Each  branch  of  the 
council  shall  also  elect  one  of  its  members  to  be  a  vice-president, 
who  shall  preside  at  such  meetings  in  the  absence  of  the  presi- 
dent, and  who,  when  the  president  shall  be  absent  from  the 
city  or  shall  be  unable  to  perform  the  duties  of  his  office  by 
reason  of  sickness  or  other  cause,  shall  perform  any  and  all 
duties  required  of  or  entrusted  to  such  president  under  any  pro- 
vision of  this  charter.  When  for  any  cause  both  the  president 
and  the  vice-president  shall  be  absent  from  any  meeting  a  presi- 
dent pro  tempore  shall  be  elected  by  the  respective  branch,  who 
shall  preside  during  the  absence  of  the  president  and  vice-presi- 
dent.    The   president,    vice-president   or   president   pro   tempore, 


who  shall  preside  when  the  proceedings  of  a  previous  meeting 
are  read,  shall  sign  the  same.  The  president  of  each  branch  or 
the  vice-president,  when  authorized  as  above  stated  to  act  for 
the  president,  shall  have  power  at  any  time  to  call  a  meeting  of 
his  branch  of  the  council,  in  case  of  absence,  sickness,  disability 
or  refusal  to  act  of  both  the  president  and  vice-president  of  a 
branch  of  the  council  that  branch  may  be  convened  by  the  order 
in  writing  of  any  three  members  of  said  branch. 

17.  Bach  branch  shall  have  authority  to  adopt  such  rules  and 
to  appoint  such  officers  and  clerks  as  it  may  deem  proper  for 
the  regulation  of  its  proceedings,  and  for  the  convenient  trans- 
action of  business,  to  compel  the  attendance  of  absent  members, 
to  punish  its  members  for  disorderly  behavior,  and  by  a  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  its  members  to  expel  a  member  for  malfeasance 
or  misfeasance  in  office.  Each  branch  shall  keep  a  journal  of 
its  proceedings,  and  its  meetings  shall  be  open,  except  when 
public  welfare  shall  require  secrecy.  The  city  council  and  or 
any  of  its  committees,  when  authorized  by  the  said  council,  the 
board  of  police  commissioners  and  the  board  of  fire  commis- 
sioners may  each,  in  any  investigation  held  by  them,  respec- 
tively, within  their  respective  powers  and  duties,  order  the  at- 
tendance of  any  person  as  a  witness,  and  the  production  of  any 
person  of  all  proper  books  and  papers.  Any  person  refusing  or 
failing  to  attend  may  be  summoned  before  the  police  justice  of 
the  city,  and  upon  failing  to  give  a  satisfactory  excuse  to  said 
police  justice  may  be  fined  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one  hun- 
dred dollars  or  imprisoned  not  exceeding  thirty  days;  such  per- 
son to  have  the  right  of  appeal  as  in  case  of  misdemeanor  to 
the  hustings  court  of  Richmond.  Such  witness  may  be  sworn  by 
the  officer  presiding  at  such  investigation,  and  shall  be  liable 
to  prosecution  for  perjury  for  any  false  testimony  given  at  such 
investigation. 

18.  A  majority  of  the  members  of  each  branch  shall  constitute         1874. 
a   quorum  for   the  transaction   of  business,    except  that  on   all       P-  ^c5U* 
ordinances    or    resolutions    appropriating    money    exceeding    the       1875-6. 
sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  imposing  taxes,  or  authorizing  the        p.  48. 
borrowing  of  money,  a  vote  of  two  thirds  of  all  the  members 
elected  to  each  branch  shall  be  necessary,  and  the  yeas  and  nays 
shall   be   entered   on  the  journal    of   each   branch,   respectively. 
No  vote  shall  be  reconsidered  or  rescinded  at  any  special  meet- 
ing, unless  at  such  special  meeting  there  be  present  as  large  a 
number  of  members  as  were  present  when  such  vote  was  taken. 
No  ordinance  or  resolution  appropriating  money  exceeding  the 
sum    of   one   thousand    dollars,    imposing   taxes,    or    authorizing 
the  borrowing  of  money,  shall  be  passed  by  the  two  branches  on 
the  same  day;     nor  shall  any  such  ordinance  or    resolution  be 
valid  unless  at  least  three  days  intervene  between  its  passage 
by  the  said  branches  respectively. 

19.  The  city  council  shall  have,  subject  to  the  provisions  herein 
contained,  the  control  and  management  of  the  fiscal  and  muni- 


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cipal  affairs  of  the  city,  and  of  all  property,  real  and  personal, 
belonging  to  tin*  said  City;  and  may  make  such  ordinances, 
orders,  and  by-laws,  relating  to  the  same,  as  it  shall  deem 
proper  and  accessary.  They  shall  likewise  have  the  power  to 
make  smh  ordinances,  by-laws,  orders,  and  regulations  as  they 
may  deem  desirable  to  carry  out  the  following  powers,  which 
arc  hereby  \  ested  in  them: 

I.  To  establish  markets  in  and  for  said  city;  appoint  clerks 
and  proper  officers  therefor;  prescribe  the  times  and  places  for 
holding  the  same;  provide  suitable  buildings  therefor,  and  to 
enforce  such  regulations  as  shall  be  necessary  or  proper  to  pre- 
vent huckstering,  forestalling,  and  regrating. 

II.  To  erect  or  provide,  in  or  near  the  city,  suitable  work- 
houses, houses  of  correction  or  reformation,  and  houses  for  the 
reception  and  maintenance  of  the  poor  and  destitute.  They 
shall  possess  and  exercise  exclusive  authority  over  all  persons 
within  the  limits  of  the  city,  receiving  or  entitled  to  the  bene- 
fits of  the  poor-laws;  appoint  officers  and  other  persons  con- 
nected with  the  aforesaid  institutions,  and  regulate  pauperism 
within  the  limts  of  the  city;  and  the  council,  through  the  agen- 
cies it  shall  appoint  for  the  direction  and  management  of  the 
poor  of  the  city,  shall  exercise  the  powers  and  perform  the 
duties  vested  by  law  in  overseers  of  the  poor. 

III.  To  erect  and  keep  in  order  all  public  buildings  necessary 
or  proper  for  said  city;  to  open,  regulate,  and  ornament  public 
squares  and  parks. 

IV.  To  erect  within  said  city  a  city  prison,  and  said  prison 
may  contain  such  apartments  as  shall  be  necessary  for  the  safe 
keeping  and  employment  of  all  persons  confined  therein. 

1  QftQ  QD  ^  •  To    estaDlisn   or   enlarge  water-works    and   gas-works    and 

p  5S4  electric  plants  within  and  without  the  limits  of  the  said  city; 
contract  and  agree  with  the  owners  of  any  land  for  the  use  or 
purchase  thereof,  or  may  have  the  same  condemned  for  the 
location,  extension,  or  enlargement  of  their  said  works,  the 
pipes,  poles,  or  wires  connected  therewith,  or  any  of  the  fixtures 
or  appurtenances  thereof.  They  shall  have  power  to  protect 
from  injury,  by  adequate  penalties,  the  said  works,  pipes,  poles, 
wires,  and  fixtures,  and  land,  or  anything  connected  therewith, 
within  or  without  the  limits  of  said  city,  and  to  prevent  the 
pollution  of  water  in  James  river,  or  any  branch  or  stream  flow- 
ing into  the  same,  by  prohibiting  the  throwing  of  filth,  offensive 
or  deleterious  matter  or  liquid  therein  above  the  said  works, 
within  fifteen  miles  above  said  works. 

There  shall  be  no  lease  nor  sale  of  the  city  gas  or  water- 
works unless  the  proposition  shall  first  be  submitted  to  the 
voters  of  the  city  of  Richmond  at  some  regular  city  election, 
and  receive  in  favor  thereof  a  majority  of  all  votes  cast  at 
such  election. 
1891-2  vi.  To  establish,  construct,  and  keep  in  order,  alter  or  remove, 

p.  662.        landings,  wharves,   and   docks  on  lands  belonging  to  the  city; 


1891-2. 
p.  661. 


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and  to  lay  and  collect  a  reasonable  duty  on  vessels  coming  to 
and  using  the  same,  and  to  regulate  the  manner  of  using  other 
wharves  and  landings  within  the  corporate  limits;  to  prevent  or 
remove  all  obstructions  in  and  upon  any  landings,  wharves,  or 
docks.  They  may  also  appoint  port-wardens  for  the  port  of 
said  city,  who  shall  exercise  such  powers  as  the  council  may  give 
them  up  to  the  port-warden's  lines,  as  they  may  be  established 
from  time  to  time  by  the  United  States  government,  and  fix 
their  fees  and  compensation.  The  said  city  shall  have  power 
to  improve  and  keep  in  good,  safe,  and  navigable  condition  the 
harbor  of  James  river  within  the  corporate  limits.  The  city 
council  of  said  city  shall  have  all  the  powers  set  forth  in  sections 
two  thousand  and  eleven,  two  thousand  and  thirteen,  and  two 
thousand  and  fourteen  of  the  Code  of  Virginia,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  eighty-seven,  which  powers  it  may  delegate  to  some 
proper  committee  of  persons  satisfactory  to  said  council. 

VII.  To  close  or  extend,  widen  or  narrow,  lay  out  and  gradu- 
ate, pave,  and  otherwise  improve  streets  and  public  alleys  in  the 
city,  and  have  them  properly  lighted  and  kept  in  good  order; 
and  they  shall  have  over  any  street  or  alley  in  the  city,  which 
has  been  or  may  be  ceded  to  the  city,  like  authority  as  over 
other  streets  or  alleys.  They  may  build  bridges  in,  and  culverts 
under,  said  streets;  and  may  prevent  or  remove  any  structure, 
obstruction,  or  encroachment  over,  or  under,  or  in  a  street  or 
alley,  or  any  sidewalk  thereof,  and  may  have  shade-trees  planted 
along  the  said  streets;  and  no  company  shall  occupy  with  its 
works  the  streets  of  the  city  without  the  consent  of  the  council. 
In  the  meantime,  no  order  shall  be  made  and  no  injunction 
shall  be  awarded,  by  any  court  or  judge,  to  stay  the  proceedings 
of  the  city  in  the  prosecution  of  their  works,  unless  it  be  mani- 
fest that  they,  their  officers,  agents,  or  servants,  are  transcend- 
ing the  authority  given  them  by  this  act,  and  that  the  interpo- 
sition of  the  court  is  necessary  to  prevent  injury  that  cannot  be 
adequately  compensated  in  damages. 

VIII.  To  prevent  the  cumbering  of  streets,  avenues,  walks, 
public  squares,  lanes,  alleys,  or  bridges  in  any  manner  whatever. 

IX.  To  authorize  the  laying  down  of  city  railway  tracks,  and 
the  running  of  norse-cars  thereon,  in  the  streets  of  the  city, 
under  such  regulations  as  they  may  prescribe. 

X.  To  determine  and  designate  the  route  and  grade  of  any 
railroad  to  be  laid  in  said  city,  and  to  restrain  and  regulate  the 
rate  of  speed  of  locomotives,  engines,  and  cars  upon  the  rail- 
roads within  the  said  city,  and  may  wholly  exclude  the  said 
engines  or  cars,  if  they  please;  provided,  no  contract  be  thereby 
violated. 

XI.  To  regulate  and  prescribe  the  breadth  of  tires  upon  the 
wheels  of  wagons,  carts,  and  vehicles  of  heavy  draught  used 
upon  the  streets  of  said  city;  provided,  however,  that  this  sec- 
tion shall  not  apply  to  vehicles  coming  into  and  not  owned  in 
said  city. 


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xii.  To  require  spirituous  liquors,  wines,  oils,  molasses,  vine- 
gar, and  spirits  of  turpentine,  in  casks,  to  be  gauged  and  in- 
spected: and  may  make  such  provision  for  the  weighing  of  hay, 
fodder,  oats,  shucks,  or  other  long  forage,  as  will  not  be  in  con- 
Hut  with  the  act  passed  the  twenty-second  of  March,  eighteen 
hundred  and  forty-seven,  to  prevent  the  authorities  of  said  city 
from  laying  and  collecting  a  tax  on  the  bales  of  hay  sent  by  the 
farmers  of  the  State  to  said  city.  They  may  also  provide  for 
Miring  corn,  oats,  grain,  coal,  stone,  wood,  lumber,  boards, 
potatoes,  and  other  articles  for  sale  or  barter. 

XIII.  To  require  every  merchant,  retailer,  trader,  and  dealer 
in  merchandise,  or  property  of  any  description,  which  is  sold 
by  measure  or  weight,  to  cause  their  weights  or  measures  to  be 
sealed  by  the  city  sealer,  and  to  be  subject  to  his  inspection; 
and  may  impose  penalties  for  any  violation  of  any  such  ordi- 
nance. 

XIV.  To  grant  aid  to  military  companies  and  regiments  orga- 
nized within  the  city;  to  societies  or  associations  for  the  ad- 
vancement of  agricultural  and  the  mechanic  arts;  to  scientific, 
literary,  and  benevolent  societies;  provided,  such  societies  or 
associations  are  located  in  or  near  the  city,  or,  in  the  case  of 
agricultural  societies,  shall  hold  their  fairs  m  or  near  the  city; 
and  to  provide  or  aid  in  support  of  public  libraries  and  public 
schools. 

1897-8  ~^  •  To  secure  tne  inhabitants  from  contagious,  infectious  or 

p.  543.  other  dangerous  diseases;  to  establish,  erect  and  regulate  hos- 
pitals; to  provide  for  and  force  the  removal  of  patients  to  said 
hospitals;  for  the  appointment  and  organization  of  board  of 
health  for  said  city,  with  the  authority  necessary  for  the  prompt 
and  efficient  performance  of  its  duties;  to  authorize  the  super- 
vision by  a  city  official  of  the  construction  and  maintenance  of 
all  water  and  sewerage  pipes,  traps  and  other  fixtures,  and  to  re- 
quire the  use  of  such  pipes,  traps  and  other  fixtures  as  the 
city  council  or  its  duly  authorized  official  or  committee  may 
deem  proper  as  sanitary  measures;  for  the  prescribing  of  the  du- 
ties of  the  coroner  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  who  shall  be  ap- 
pointed, as  provided  under  the  general  statutes  of  the  State,  by 
the  judge  of  the  hustings  court,  but  who  shall  receive,  instead  of 
fees,  a  salary  to  be  determined  by  the  city  council,  and  to  be  paid 
by  the  city;  provided,  the  salary  of  the  said  coroner  shall  not  be 
less  than  two  thousand  dollars.  He  shall  be  a  physician  of 
not  less  than  five  years  standing,  and  shall  also  be  a  chemist. 
He  shall  hold  all  the  inquests  and  make  all  post  mortem  exami- 
nations without  the  assistance  of  any  medical  experts,  for  whose 
assistance  the  city  may  be  liable,  without  the  consent  of  the 
mayor. 

XVI.  To  provide,  in  or  near  the  city,  lands  to  be  appropriated, 
improved,  and  kept  in  order,  as  places  for  the  interment  of  the 
dead,  and  may  charge  for  the  use  of  ground  in  said  places  of 
interment,  and  may  regulate  the  same;   may  prevent  the  burial 


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of  dead  in  the  city,  except  in  the  public  burying-grounds;  may 
regulate  burials  in  said  grounds,  and  may  require  the  keeping 
and  return  of  bills  of  mortality  by  the  keepers  or  owners  of  all 
cemeteries. 

XVII.  To  establish  a  quarantine  ground  for  the  city;  but  if 
said  ground  shall  extend  below  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  city 
on  the  river,  the  assent  of  the  county  court  of  Henrico  shall  be 
first  obtained. 

XVIII.  To  require  and  compel  the  abatement  and  removal  of 
all  nuisances  within  said  city,  at  the  expense  of  the  person  or 
persons  causing  the  same,  or  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  ground 
whereon  the  same  shall  be;  to  prevent  or  regulate  slaughter- 
houses and  soap  and  candle  factories  within  said  city,  or  the 
exercise  of  any  dangerous,  offensive,  or  unhealthy  business, 
trade  or  employment  therein,  and  to  regulate  the  transportation 
of  coal  and  other  articles  through  the  streets  of  the  city. 

XIX.  If  any  "ground  in  the  said  city  shall  be  subject  to  be 
covered  by  stagnant  water,  or  if  the  owner  or  owners,  occupier 
or  occupiers  thereof,  shall  permit  any  offensive  or  unwhole- 
some substance  to  remain  or  accumulate  therein,  the  council 
may  cause  such  ground  to  be  filled  up,  raised,  or  drained,  or 
may  cause  such  substances  to  be  covered  or  to  be  removed 
therefrom,  and  may  collect  the  expense  of  so  doing  from  the 
said  owner  or  owners,  occupier  or  occupiers,  or  any  of  them,  by 
distress  and  sale,  in  the  same  manner  in  which  taxes,  levied 
upon  real  estate  for  the  benefit  of  said  city,  are  authorized  to  be 
collected;  provided,  that  reasonable  notice  shall  be  first  given 
to  the  said  owners  or  their  agents.  In  case  of  non-resident 
owners,  who  have  no  agent  in  said  city,  such  notice  may  be 
given  by  publication  for  not  less  than  four  weeks  in  any  news- 
paper printed  in  said  city. 

XX.  To  direct  the  location  of  all  buildings  for  storing  gun- 
powder or  other  combustible  substances,  and  to  regulate  the 
sale  or  use  of  gunpowder,  fire-crackers,  or  fire-works  manu- 
factured or  prepared  therefrom,  kerosene  oil,  nitro-glycerine, 
camphene,  burning  fluid,  or  other  combustible  material;  to 
regulate  the  exhibition  of  fire-works,  the  discharge  of  fire-arms, 
the  use  of  candles  and  lights  in  barns,  stables,  and  other  build- 
ings, and  to  restrain  the  making  of  bon-fires  in  streets  and 
yards. 

XXI.  To  prevent  hogs,  dogs,  and  other  animals  from  run- 
ning at  large  in  the  city,  and  may  subject  the  same  to  such  con- 
fiscations, regulations  and  taxes,  as  they  may  deem  proper;,  and 
the  council  may  prohibit  the  raising  or  keeping  of  hogs  in  the 
city. 

XXII.  To  prevent  the  riding  or  driving  of  horses  or  other 
animals  at  an  improper  speed;  to  prevent  the  flying  of  kites, 
throwing  stones,  or  the  engaging  in  any  employment  or  sports 
in  the  streets  or  public  alleys,  dangerous  or  annoying  to  pas- 
sengers, and  to  prohibit  and  punish  the  abuse  of  animals. 


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XXIII.  To  restrain  and  punish  drunkards,  vagrants,  mendi- 
cants, and  street  beggars. 

XX IV.  To  prevent  vice  and  immorality;  to  preserve  public 
peace  and  good  order;  to  prevent  and  quell  riots,  disturbances, 
and  disorderly  assemblages;  to  suppress  houses  of  ill-fame  and 
gaming-houses;  to  prevent  lewd,  indecent,  and  disorderly  con- 
duct or  exhibitions  in  the  city,  and  to  expel  therefrom  persons 
guilty  of  such  conduct  who  shall  not  have  resided  therein  as 
much  as  one  year. 

XXV.  To  forbid  and  prevent  the  vending  or  other  disposition 
of  liquors  and  intoxicating  drinks,  to  be  drunk  in  any  canal- 
boat,  store,  or  other  place  not  duly  licensed;  and  to  forbid  the 
selling,  or  given  to  be  drunk,  any  intoxicating  liquors  to  any 
child  or  young  person  without  the  consent  of  his  or  her  parents 
or  guardian;  and  for  any  violation  of  any  such  ordinance,  may 
impose  fines  in  addition  to  those  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  the 
State. 

XXVI.  To  prevent  the  coming  into  the  city,  from  beyond  the 
limits  of  the  State,  of  persons  having  no  ostensible  means  of 
support,  or  of  persons  who  may  be  dangerous  to  the  peace  and 
safety  of  the  city;  and  for  this  purpose  may  require  any  rail- 
road company,  or  the  captain  or  master  of  any  vessel  bringing 
such  passengers  to  Richmond,  to  enter  into  bond,  with  satis- 
factory security,  that  such  persons  shall  not  become  chargeable 
to  the  city  for  one  year,  or  may  compel  such  company,  captain, 
or  master  to  take  them  back  from  whence  they  came,  and  com- 
pel the  persons  to  leave  the  city  if  they  have  not  been  in  the 
city  more  than  thirty  days  before  the  order  is  given. 

I„QM  g  20.  Where,  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  city  council  has 

p.  543.  authority  to  pass  ordinances  on  any  subject,  they  may  pre- 
scribe any  fine  or  penalty,  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars 
(except  where  a  fine  or  penalty  is  herein  otherwise  provided  for), 
for  a  violation  thereof,  and  may  provide  that  the  offender,  on 
failing  to  pay  the  fine  penalty  imposed,  shall  be  imprisoned  in 
the  jail  of  the  said  city  for  any  term  not  exceeding  three  calen- 
dar months.  Such  imprisonment  may  be  ordered  to  be  with  or 
without  labor;  when  ordered  to  be  with  labor  the  council  may 
by  ordinance  declare  what  kind  of  labor  shall  be  done  for  the 
city  by  such  offenders  either  at  said  jail  or  elsewhere  in  the  said 
city.  And  the  city  council  may  subject  the  parent  or  guardian 
of  any  minor,  or  the  master  or  mistress  of  any  apprentice,  to  any 
such  fine  for  any  such  offence  committed  by  such  minor  or  ap- 
prentice. From  any  fine  or  imprisonment  imposed  an  appeal 
lies  to  the  hustings  court  of  the  city  as  in  cases  of  misdemeanor. 
Whenever  any  fine  or  penalty  shall  be  imposed  but  not  paid, 
the  police  justice,  if  he  shall  not  order  the  party  to  be  im- 
prisoned in  the  city  jail,  may,  unless  an  appeal  be  taken  forth- 
with, issue  a  writ  of  fieri  facias  for  said  fine,  directed  to  the 
sergeant  of  the  city.  Such  writ  must  be  made  returnable  to  the 
said  police  justice  within  sixty  days  from  its  issuance. 


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21.  No  ordinance  hereafter  passed  by  the  city  council  for  the  1874. 
violation  of  which  any  penalty  is  imposed  shall  take  effect  until  P-  230. 
the  same  shall  have  been  published  for  five  days  consecutively 

in  one  of  the  daily  newspapers  of  said  city,  to  be  designated  by 
the  said  council;  provided,  however,  that  the  requirement  shall 
not  apply  to  an  ordinance  merely  granting  to  a  person  some 
individual  right  or  privilege,  nor  to  any  ordinance  re-ordained, 
or  amended  or  re-ordained  in  or  by  compilation  or  codification 
of  said  ordinances.  A  record  or  entry  made  by  the  clerk  of  said 
city,  or  a  copy  of  such  record  or  entry  duly  certified  by  him, 
shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  time  of  such  first  publica- 
tion; and  all  laws,  regulations,  and  ordinances  of  the  city  coun- 
cil may  be  read  in  evidence  in  all  courts  of  justice,  and  in  all 
proceedings  before  any  officer,  body,  or  board  in  which  it  shall 
be  necessary  to  refer  thereto,  either  from  a  copy  thereof  certi- 
fied by  the  clerk  of  said  city,  or  from  the  volume  of  ordinances 
printed  by  the  authority  of  the  city  council. 

22.  The  council  shall  not  take  or  use  any  private  property 
for  streets  or  other  public  purposes,  without  making  to  the 
owner  or  the  owners  thereof  just  compensation  for  the  same. 
But  in  all  cases  where  the  said  city  cannot  by  agreement  ob- 
tain a  title  to  the  ground  necessary  for  such  purposes,  it  shall 
be  lawful  for  the  said  city  to  apply  to  and  obtain  from  the  cir- 
cuit or  county  court  of  the  county  in  which  the  land  shall  be 
situated,  or  to  the  proper  court  of  the  city  having  jurisdiction 
of  such  matters,  if  the  subject  lies  within  this  city,  for  authority 
to  condemn  the  same;  which  shall  be  applied  for  and  proceeded 
with  as  provided  by  law. 

23.  In  every  case  where  a  street  or  alley  in  said  city  has  been  1883-4. 
or  shall  be  encroached  upon  by  any  fence,  building,  or  other-  P-  494. 
wise,  the  city  council  may  require  the  owner  or  owners,  if  1891-2. 
known,  and  if  unknown,  the  occupant  or  occupants  of  the  prem-  p.  660. 
ises  so  encroaching,  to  remove  the  same.     If  such  removal  shall 

not  be  made  within  the  time  ordered  by  the  council,  they  may 
impose  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  day  that  it  is 
allowed  to  continue  thereafter,  and  may  cause  the  encroachment 
to  be  removed  and  collect  from  the  owner  all  reasonable  charges 
therefor,  with  costs,  by  the  same  processes  that  they  are  herein- 
after empowered  to  collect  taxes;  provided,  however,  that  in 
any  case  where  a  street  or  alley,  as  originally  laid  out  or  es- 
tablished, has  been  encroached  upon  by  any  building  for  a 
period  of  twenty  years,  the  part  of  the  street  so  encroached 
upon  and  actually  occupied  by  said  building  shall  not  be  re- 
claimed or  taken  possession  of  by  said  city  for  the  public  as  a 
street  or  alley  until  said  building  shall  be  rebuilt,  or  destroyed, 
or  removed,  or  until  the  front  of  the  building  shall  be  removed 
or  rebuilt.  Hereafter  the  said  city  shall  have  the  right  to  sue 
in  ejectment  to  recover  possession  of  land  claimed  by  her  as  a 
public  highway. 

24.  Whenever  any  street,  alley,  or  lane  shall  have  been  opened 


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to  and  used  as  such   by   the  public  for  the  period  of  Ave  years, 
the  same  shall   there!'.  ■    a   street,   alley,  or  lane  for  all 

purposes,  and  the  city  shall  have  the  same  authority  and  juris- 
diction over,  and  rlghl  and  interest  therein,  as  they  have  by 
law  over  the  streets,  alleys,  and  lanes  laid  out  by  it.  And  any 
t  or  alley  reserved  in  the  division  or  sub-division  into  lots 
i.y  portion  of  the  territory  within  the  corporate  limits  of 
the  city,  by  a  plat  or  plan  of  record,  shall  be  deemed  and  held 
to  be  dedicating  to  the  public  use;  and  the  council  shall  have 
authority,  upon  the  petition  of  any  person  interested  therein, 
to  open  such  street  or  alley,  or  any  portion  of  the  same.  No 
agreement  between,  or  release  of  interest  by,  the  persons  own- 
ing the  lands  immediately  contiguous  to  any  such  alley  or 
street,  whether  the  same  has  been  opened  and  used  by  the 
public  or  not,  shall  avail  or  operate  to  abolish  said  alley  or 
street  as  to  divest  the  interest  of  the  public  therein,  or  the  au- 
thority of  the  council  over  the  same. 
iggcc  24  a.  That  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  have  the  control  and 

■p.  i»i7.  management  of  Grove  avenue  from  the  western  limits  of  said 
city  to  the  Soldiers'  Home,  and  of  said  boulevard  from  the 
Broad  street  or  Mountain  road  to  said  reservoir,  and  of  the 
city's  grounds  contiguous  thereto;  and  that  said  city  of  Rich- 
mond shall  have  the  power  to  make  such  ordinances,  orders 
and  regulations  relating  to  the  said  avenues  and  grounds  as  it 
may  deem  proper  and  necessary;  but  the  citizens  of  the  county 
shall  have  the  same  privileges  as  the  city  of  Richmond. 
1805-6.  24  b.  That  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  have  the  control  and 

p.  520.  management  of  the  Broad  street  road  from  its  intersection  with 
the  boulevard  leading  to  Grove  avenue  to  the  western  limits  of 
said  city,  and  that  said  city  of  Richmond  shall  have  the  power 
to  make  such  ordinances,  orders  and  regulations  relating  to  the 
said  road  as  it  may  deem  proper  and  necessary;  but  the  citizens 
of  the  county  shall  have  the  same  privileges  as  the  city  of 
Richmond. 

25.  Whenever  any  new  street  shall  be  laid  out,  a  street  graded 
or  paved,  a  culvert  built,  or  any  other  public  improvement  what- 
soever made,  the  city  council  may  determine  what  portion,  if 
any,  of  the  expenses  thereof  ought  to  be  paid  from  the  public 
treasury,  and  what  portion  by  the  owners  of  real  estate  bene- 
fitted, or  may  order  and  direct  that  the  whole  expense  be  as- 
sessed upon  the  owners  of  real  estate  benefitted  thereby.  But 
no  such  public  improvement  shall  be  made,  to  be  defrayed  in 
whole  or  in  part  by  a  local  assessment,  until  first  requested  by 
a  petition  signed  by  at  least  a  majority  of  the  owners  of  prop- 
erty to  be  assessed  for  such  improvement,  or  unless  at  least 
three-fourths  of  all  the  council  shall  concur  in  voting  any  im- 
provement to  be  expedient,  or  in  determining  to  make  the  same 
after  allegations  have  been  heard;  in  which  case,  no  petition  or 
request   shall   be   necessary.     The  council   shall   have   the   same 


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powers  to  collect  such  local  assessments  for  improvements  as 
are  hereinafter  vested  in  them  for  the  collection  of  taxes. 

26.  The  city  council  shall  grant  and  pay  to  all  city  officers, 
clerks,  and  assistants,  elected  or  appointed  under  or  in  pur- 
suance of  this  act,  such  salaries  or  compensation  as  the  said 
city  council  may  from  time  to  time  deem  proper,  or  shall  be 
fixed  by  this  or  any  other  act  of  assembly  hereafter  enacted. 

27.  If  any  person,  having  been  an  officer  of  said  city,  shall 
not,  within  ten  days  after  he  shall  have  vacated  or  been  re- 
moved from  office,  and  upon  notification  and  request  of  the  city 
clerk,  or  within  such  time  thereafter  as  the  city  council  shall 
allow,  deliver  over  to  his  successor  in  office  all  the  property, 
books,  and  papers  belonging  to  the  city  or  appertaining  to  such 
office,  in  his  possession  or  under  his  control,  he  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  to  the  city  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  sued 
for  and  recovered  with  cost.  And  all  books,  records,  and  docu- 
ments used  in  any  such  office,  by  virtue  of  any  such  provision  of 
this  act,  or  of  any  ordinance  or  order  of  the  city  council,  or  any 
superior  officer  of  said  city,  shall  be  deemed  the  property  of 
said  city  and  appertain  to  said  office,  and  the  chief  officer  thereof 
shall  be  responsible  therefor. 

CHAPTER   IV. 

CITY   OFFICERS. 

28.  There  shall  be  one  auditor,  one  city  treasurer,  one  col- 
lector of  city  taxes,  one  commissioner  of  the  revenue,  one  city 
attorney,  one  city  engineer,  one  city  clerk,  and  such  clerks  and 
assistants  as  the  city  council  may  see  fit,  by  ordinance,  to  pre- 
scribe and  furnish. 

29.  The  council  may  appoint  such  officers  and  clerks  as  they  1869-70. 
may  deem  proper,  in  addition  to  those  herein  provided  for,  and  P-  453. 
define  their  powers  and  prescribe  their  duties  and  compensation, 

and  may  take  from  any  of  the  officers,  and  so  forth,  appointed, 
bonds,  with  sureties,  in  such  penalties  as  the  council  may  see 
fit,  payable  to  the  city  by  its  corporate  name,  with  condition 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  duties.  All  officers  ap- 
pointed by  the  council  may  be  removed  from  office  at  its  pleas- 
ure. In  case  of  vacancies  occurring  in  any  municipal  office, 
when  it  is  not  herein  otherwise  provided,  the  city  council  shall 
elect  a  qualified  person  to  fill  such  office  during  the  unexpired 
term. 

30.  The  parties  to  bonds  taken  in  pursuance  of  the  preceding 
section,  their  heirs,  devisees,  executors  and  administrators,  shall 
be  subject  to  the  same  proceedings  on  the  said  bonds  for  en- 
forcing the  conditions  and  terms  thereof,  by  motion  or  other- 
wise, before  the  circuit  court  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  or  any 
other  courts  held  in  the  city  which  may  succeed  to  the  civil 
common-law   jurisdiction    of   said    court,    that   collectors    of    the 


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county   Levy   and   their  securities  are  or  shall  be  subject  to,  on 
their  bonds,  tor  enforcing  payment  of  the  county  levies. 
5      7,i  31.  The  city  auditor  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of 

p.  163.  the  city  of  Richmond.  Ho  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of 
two  years,  and  until  his  successor  be  elected  and  qualify,  un- 
less sooner  removed.  He  shall  hold  his  office  in  such  place  as 
may  be  designated  and  prescribed  by  the  city  council.  He  shall 
give  bond,  with  sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not  less  than  thirty 
thousand  dollars,  which  shall  be  determined  by  the  city  coun- 
cil, before  he  enters  upon  the  duties  of  his  office;  said  bond  to 
be  approved  by  the  said  city  council,  entered  on  their  record, 
and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk.  The  said  auditor  shall 
open,  and  keep  in  a  neat  and  methodical  manner,  a  complete 
set  of  books,  under  the  direction  of  the  city  council,  wherein 
shall  be  stated,  among  other  things,  the  appropriations  of  the 
year  for  each  distinct  object  and  branch  of  expenditure,  and 
also  the  receipts  from  each  and  every  source  of  revenue,  so  far 
as  he  can  ascertain  the  same.  Said  books,  and  all  papers,  vouch- 
ers, contracts,  bonds,  receipts,  and  other  things,  kept  in  said 
office,  shall  be  subject  to  the  examination  of  the  mayor,  the 
members  of  the  city  council,  or  any  committee  or  committees 
thereof. 

32.  The  said  auditor  shall  be  charged  with  and  exercise  a 
general  supervision  over  all  the  officers  of  the  city  charged  in 
any  manner  with  the  receipt,  collection,  or  disbursement  of  the 
city  revenues,  and  the  collection  and  return  of  such  revenues 
into  the  city  treasury.  He  shall  have  charge  of  all  deeds,  mort- 
gages, contracts,  judgments,  notes,  bonds,  debts,  choses  in 
action,  belonging  to  the  said  city,  except  such  as  are  confined 
to  the  custody  of  the  city  clerk,  and  such  other  papers  as  may 
be  committed  to  his  care  by  the  city  council,  by  ordinance  or 
otherwise. 

33.  The  said  auditor  shall  have  power  to  examine  all  ac- 
counts, claims,  and  demands  for  or  against  the  said  city;  and 
no  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  treasury  or  paid  by  the  city 
to  any  person,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  unless  that 
balance  due  or  payable  be  first  settled  and  adjusted  by  the  said 
auditor;  and  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  true  state  of 
any  balance  or  balances  so  due,  he  shall  have,  and  is  hereby 
clothed  with,  full  power  and  authority  to  administer  an  oath  or 
oaths  to  the  claimant  or  claimants,  or  any  other  person  or 
persons,  whom  he  may  think  proper  to  examine  as  to  any  fact, 
matter,  or  thing  concerning  the  correctness  of  any  account, 
claim,  or  demand  presented;  and  the  person  so  sworn  shall,  if 
he  swears  falsely,  be  guilty  of  wilful  and  corrupt  perjury,  and 
be  subject  to  punishment  by  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary 
for  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  five  years. 

34.  All  money  found  to  be  due  and  payable  by  the  said  au- 
ditor to  any  person,  shall  be  drawn  by  said  auditor  by  warrant 
on  the  treasurer,   stating  the  particular  fund  or  appropriation 


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to  which  the  same  is  chargeable  and  the  person  to  whom  pay- 
able; and  no  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  treasury  except 
on  the  warrant  of  the  auditor,  as  aforesaid.  But  the  auditor  is 
forbidden  to  issue  his  warrant  for  the  payment  of  any  money 
in  excess  of  the  appropriation  on  account  of  which  said  money 
is  drawn. 

35.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  auditor,  as  nearly  as  may  be, 
to  charge  all  officers  in  the  receipt  of  revenues  or  moneys  of 
the  city,  with  the  whole  amount,  from  time  to  time,  of  such  re- 
ceipts; he  shall  also  require  of  all  officers  in  receipt  of  city 
moneys  that  they  shall  submit  reports  thereof,  with  vouchers 
and  receipts  of  payment  therefor  into  the  city  treasury,  weekly 
or  monthly,  or  as  often  as  he  shall  see  fit  to  require  the  same 
by  any  regulation  which  he  may  adopt;  and  if  any  such  officer 
shall  neglect  to  make  adjustment  of  his  accounts,  when  re- 
quired as  aforesaid,  and  to  pay  over  such  moneys  so  received, 
it  shall  then  be  the  duty  of  said  auditor  to  issue  notice  in  writ- 
ing, directed  to  such  officer  and  his  securities,  requiring  him  or 
them,  within  ten  days,  to  make  settlement  of  his  said  account 
with  the  auditor,  and  to  pay  over  the  balance  of  moneys  found 
to  be  due  and  in  his  hands  belonging  to  the  said  city,  according 
to  the  books  of  said  auditor;  and  in  case  of  the  refusal  or  neglect 
of  such  officer  to  adjust  his  said  accounts  or  pay  over  said  bal- 
ance to  the  treasurer,  as  required,  it  shall  then  be  the  duty  of 
said  auditor  to  make  report  of  the  delinquency  of  such  officer 
to  the  mayor,  who  shall  at  once  suspend  him  from  office,  pro- 
ceed forthwith  to  institute  the  necessary  proceeding  for  the  re- 
moval of  such  officer  from  office,  and  immediately  on  his  re- 
moval, institute  suit  in  the  name  of  said  city  against  him  and 
his  securities  to  recover  the  balance  of  moneys  so  found  to  be 
due  and  in  his  hands  belonging  to  said  city. 

36.  The  auditor  shall  make  out  an  annual  statement,  as  soon 
as  possible  after  the  end  of  each  fiscal  year,  giving  a  full  and 
detailed  statement  of  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  during 
the  said  year.  The  said  statement  shall  also  detail  the  lia- 
bilities and  expenditures  during  the  year,  the  liabilities  and 
resources  of  said  city,  the  condition  of  all  unexpended  appro- 
priations and  contracts  unfulfilled,  the  balances  of  money  then 
remaining  in  the  treasury,  with  all  sums  due  and  outstanding, 
the  names  of  all  persons  who  may  have  become  defaulters  to 
the  city,  and  the  amounts  in  their  hands  unaccounted  for,  and 
all  other  things  necessary  to  exhibit  the  true  financial  condition 
of  the  city. 

37.  The  auditor  shall  annually  submit  to  the  city  council,  at 
their  first  stated  meeting  after  the  beginning  of  the  fiscal  year, 
a  report  of  the  estimates  necessary,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to 
defray  the  expenses  of  the  city  government  during  the  cur- 
rent fiscal  year.  He  shall  in  said  report  class  the  different  ob- 
jects and  branches  of  said  city  expenditure,  giving,  as  nearly  as 
may  be,  the  amount  required  for  each;   and  for  this  purpose  he 


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is  authorized  to  require  of  all  city  ofliccrs  and  heads  of  depart- 
ments their  statements  of  the  condition  and  expense  of  their 
respective  departments  and  offices,  with  any  proposed  improve- 
ment, and  the  probable  expense  thereof,  of  contracts  already 
made  and  unfinished,  and  the  amount  of  unexpended  appropria- 
tions of  the  preceding  year.  He  aaJ]  also  in  such  report  show 
the  aggregate  income  of  the  preceding  fiscal  year  from  all 
sources,  the  amount  of  liabilities  outstanding  upon  which  inter- 
est is  to  be  paid,  and  of  bonds  and  .city  debts  payable  during  the 
year,  win  n  due  and  where  payable,  so  that  the  city  council  may 
fully  understand  the  money  exigencies  and  demands  of  the  city 
for  the  current  year. 

38.  In  addition  to  the  other  duties  of  the  said  auditor,  it  is 
hereby  made  his  duty,  on  the  last  day  of  each  and  every  month, 
to  make  out  a  monthly  statement,  giving  a  full  and  detailed 
account  of  all  moneys  received,  from  what  sources  and  on  what 
account  received,  and  of  all  moneys  ordered  to  be  paid  or  drawn 
for  by  warrant  by  him,  and  on  what  account  the  same  has  been 
paid;  and  shall  deliver  said  statement  to  the  said  city  council 
at  their  next  meeting,  to  be  filed,  after  the  adjournment  of  said 
council,  by  the  city  clerk  with  the  papers  belonging  to  his  office. 

39.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city 
of  Richmond,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  hereinbefore 
for  the  election  of  mayor  of  said  city,  at  the  first  charter  elec- 
tion, and  every  three  years  thereafter,  one  city  treasurer,  who 
shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  three  years,  and  until  his 
successor  be  elected  and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed  from 
office.  He  shall  give  bond,  with  sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not 
less  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars;  said  bond  to  be  ap- 
proved by  the  city  council,  entered  on  their  records,  and  filed 
in  the  city  clerk's  office. 

)s-^  40.  The  said  treasurer  shall  receive  all  moneys  belonging  to 

p.  230.  the  city,  and  shall  keep  his  office  in  some  place  designated  by 
the  council.  He  shall  have  the  custody  of  the  corporate  seal. 
He  shall  keep  his  books  and  accounts  in  such  manner  as  the 
city  council  may  prescribe,  and  such  books  and  accounts  shall 
always  be  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  mayor  and  any  mem- 
ber of  the  city  council,  or  any  committee  or  committees  thereof. 

41.  No  moneys  shall  be  paid  out  by  the  treasurer  except  upon 
the  warrant  of  the  auditor,  issued  as  hereinbefore  provided,  and 
he  shall  keep  a  separate  account  of  each  fund  or  appropriation, 
and  the  debits  or  credits  belonging  thereto. 

42.  All  moneys  to  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  city,  ex- 
cept the  bills  for  gas  and  water,  and  such  other  assessments  as 
the  city  council  may  so  ordain,  shall  be  paid  by  the  person 
liable  to  pay  the  same,  or  his  agent,  to  the  treasurer,  in  the  fol- 
lowing manner:  A  warrant  shall  first  be  obtained  from  the 
auditor,  directing  the  treasurer  to  receive  the  sum  to  be  paid, 
specifying  on  what  account  the  payment  is  to  be  made.  Upon 
the  payment  of  the  money  to  the  treasurer  he  shall  give  a  re- 


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ceipt  for  the  same,  which  shall  be  carried  to  the  auditor,  and 
his  receipt  therefor  shall  be  the  acquittance  of  the  party  mak- 
ing the  payment.  Bills  for  gas  and  water,  and  such  other  as- 
sessments as  the  city  council  may  so  ordain,  shall  be  paid  di- 
rectly to  the  treasurer,  who  shall  keep  an  account  thereof,  and 
make  daily  reports  of  such  receipts  to  the  auditor. 

43.  The  treasurer  shall,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every  month, 
and  oftener  if  required,  render  an  account  to  the  auditor,  show- 
ing the  state  of  the  treasury  at  the  date  of  such  account,  and  the 
balance  of  moneys  in  the  treasury.  He  shall  also,  if  required 
so  to  do  by  the  auditor,  accompany  such  account  with  a  state- 
ment of  all  moneys  received  into  the  treasury,  and  on  what  ac- 
count, with  a  list  of  all  warrants  redeemed  and  paid  by  him 
during  the  month. 

44.  The  treasurer  shall  also  report  to  the  city  council,  at  the 
end  of  each  fiscal  year,  and  oftener,  if  required,  a  full  and  de- 
tailed account  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  during  the  pre- 
ceding fiscal  year,  and  the  state  of  the  treasury.  He  shall  also 
keep  a  register  of  all  warrants,  their  date,  amount,  number,  the 
fund  from  which  paid,  and  the  person  to  whom  paid,  specifying 
also  the  time  of  payment;  and  all  such  warrants  shall  be  ex- 
amined, at  the  time  of  making  such  annual  report  to  the  city 
council,  by  a  committee  thereof,  who  shall  examine  and  com- 
pare the  same  with  the  books  of  the  auditor,  and  report  dis- 
crepancies, if  any,  to  the  city  council. 

45.  All  moneys  received  on  any  special  assessment  shall  be 
held  by  the  treasurer  as  a  special  fund,  to  be  applied  to  the  pay- 
ment for  which  the  assessment  was  made;  and  said  money 
shall  be  used  for  no  other  purpose  whatsoever. 

46.  The  treasurer  may  be  required  to  keep  all  moneys  in  his  1869-70. 
hands  belonging  to  the  city,  in  such  place  or  places  of  deposit  P-  453. 
as  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance  provide,  order,   establish, 

or  direct.  Such  moneys  shall  be  kept  distinct  and  separate 
from  his  own  moneys;  and  he  is  hereby  expressly  prohibited 
from  using,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  the  corporation  money, 
or  warrants  in  his  custody  and  keeping,  for  his  own  use  and 
benefit,  or  that  of  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever;  and  any 
violation  of  this  provision  shall  subject  him  to  immediate  re- 
moval from  office.  In  case  of  his  removal,  the  city  council  shall 
elect  a  qualified  person  to  fill  said  office  until  tfi'e  next  general 
election  wnich  may  be  held  in  the  city,  when  the  qualified 
voters  of  said  city  shall,  as  in  other  cases,  fill  such  vacancy  by 
an  election  of  a  successor,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  re- 
mainder, if  any,  of  the  unexpired  term  of  the  officer  removed. 

47.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  1869-70 
of  Richmond  one  collector  of  the  city  taxes,  who  shall  hold  his  p.  453. 
office  for  the  period  of  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall 

be  elected  and  qualify,  unless  sooner  removed  from  office.  He 
shall  give  bond,  with  sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not  less  than 
fifty   thousand   dollars — said   bond    to   be   approved   by   the   city 


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council,  entered  on  their  records,  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
city  clerk. 

18.  Said  collector  shall  collect  all  taxes  and  assessments 
which  may  be  levied  by  said  city,  and  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  bo  herein  prescribed  or  ordained  by  the  city 
council.  He  shall  keep  his  office  in  such  place  as  may  be  desig- 
nated and  prescribed  by  the  city  council,  and  shall  keep  in  his 
said  office,  besides  his  collection  and  revenue  warrants,  such 
other  books,  vouchers,  records,  and  accounts  as  the  city  coun- 
cil may  direct  and  prescribe;  all  of  which  shall  be  subject  to 
the  inspection  and  examination  of  the  mayor,  the  members  of 
the  city  council,  or  any  committee  or  committees  thereof. 

49.  The  said  collector  shall  make  report  in  writing,  under 
oath,  to  the  auditor,  weekly,  or  oftener  if  required,  the  amount 
of  all  moneys  collected  by  him,  and  shall  pay  the  same  into  the 
city  treasury  in  the  manner  hereinbefore  provided.  At  the  end 
of  each  fiscal  year  he  shall  submit  to  the  city  council  a  statement 
of  all  moneys  by  him  collected  during  the  year,  and  the  par- 
ticular warrant,  assessment,  or  account  upon  which  collected, 
and  the  balance  of  moneys  uncollected  on  the  warrants  in  his 
hands  or  returned  to  the  auditor,  and  a  copy  of  such  statement 
shall  also  be  filed  with  the  auditor  of  said  city. 
1869-70.  50.  The   said    collector    is   expressly    prohibited    from    keeping 

p.  453.  the  money  of  the  city  in  his  hands,  or  in  the  hands  of  any  per- 
son or  corporation  to  his  use,  beyond  the  time  prescribed  for 
the  payment  of  the  same  into  the  city  treasury,  and  any  vio- 
lation of  this  provision  shall  subject  him  to  immediate  removal 
from  office. 

1885-6  51,  It;  sha11  be  tQe  duty  of  tne  sai(i  collector,  on  the  first  Mon- 

p.  224.  day  in  July  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-six,  and  on 
the  first  Monday  in  February  of  each  succeeding  year,  to  turn 
over  to  the  auditor  of  the  city  all  bills,  assessments,  and  ac- 
counts for  all  preceding  years  upon  which  there  shall  then  re- 
main unpaid  any  part  of  any  tax  or  assessment  due  the  city; 
and,  thereupon,  the  said  auditor  shall  turn  over  the  same  to  the 
officer  of  the  city  who  shall  be  chosen  by  the  city  council,  and 
known  as  the  collector  of  delinquent  taxes.  The  said  collector 
of  delinquent  taxes  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  period  of  two 
years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  elected  and  qualify,  un- 
less sooner  removed  from  office.  He  shall  perform  such  duties, 
and  receive  such  compensation,  and  give  such  bond  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  city  council,  the  said  bond  not  to  be  for  a 
sum  less  than  five  thousand  dollars.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
said  collector  of  delinquent  taxes  to  conduct  all  the  proceedings, 
and  render  all  the  service  necessary,  to  perfect  the  sale  and 
transfer  of  real  estate  in  said  city,  where  the  same  shall  be 
sold  or  advertised  for  sale,  for  the  non-payment  of  any  tax  or 
assessment  imposed  by  the  city  council,  as  hereinafter  provided. 
The    said    collector    of    delinquent    taxes    shall    have    the    same 


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powers  to  collect,  by  the  same  means  and  processes,  all  bills, 
assessments,  and  accounts  delivered  to  him  as  are  also  con- 
ferred by  the  said  charter  upon  the  collector  of  towns. 

52.  The  said  collector  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  city  coun- 
cil, appoint  a  deputy  or  deputies,  who  may  be  removed  from 
office  by  the  said  collector,  by  the  mayor,  or  by  the  city  coun- 
cil. During  the  continuance  in  office  of  the  said  collector,  a 
deputy  of  his  may  discharge  any  of  the  duties  of  the  office  of 
collector;  but  the  collector  and  his  sureties  shall  be  liable 
therefor. 

53.  If  the  said  collector  shall  receive  any  money  for  taxes  or 
assessments,  giving  a  receipt  therefor,  for  any  land  or  parcel 
of  land,  and  afterwards  sell  the  same,  at  any  sale  for  taxes  or 
assessments,  for  the  tax  or  assessment  which  has  been  so  paid 
and  receipted  for  by  himself  or  his  deputy,  he  and  his  sureties 
shall  be  liable'  to  the  holder  of  the  certificate  given  to  the  pur- 
chaser at  the  sale  for  double  the  amount  on  the  face  of  the  cer- 
tificate, to  be  demanded  within  three  years  from  the  date  of 
sale,  and  recovered  in  any  court  having  jurisdiction  of  the 
amount;  and  the  city  shall  in  no  case  be  liable  to  the  holder 
of  such  certificate. 

54.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  1869-70. 
of  Richmond  one  commissoner  of  the  revenue,  wiio  shall  hold  p.  454. 
his  office  for  the  period  of  two  years,   and  until   his  successor 

shall  be  elected  and  qualify,  unless  sooner  removed  from  office. 
He  shall  give  bond,  with  sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not  less 
than  five  thousand  dollars;  said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  city 
council,  entered  on  their  record,  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city 
clerk.  In  case  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  the  office  of  commis- 
sioner of  the  revenue,  the  city  council  shall  elect  a  qualified 
person  to  fill  said  office  until  the  next  general  election  which 
may  be  held  in  the  city,  when  the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by 
election  for  the  unexpired  term. 

55.  The  said  commissioner  of  the  revenue  shall  perform  all 
the  duties  in  relation  to  the  assessment  of  property  for  the  pur- 
pose of  levying  city  taxes  that  may  be  ordered  by  the  city 
council.  He  shall  keep  his  office  in  such  a  place  as  may  be  desig- 
nated and  prescribed  by  the  city  council,  and  shall  keep  therein 
such  books,  schedules  and  records,  and  in  such  manner,  as  the 
mayor  and  city  council  may  direct  and  prescribe;  which  books, 
records,  and  other  papers  shall  be  subject  to  the  inspection  and 
examination  of  the  mayor,  the  members  of  the  city  council,  or 
any  committe  or  committees  thereof,  and  of  the  collector  of 
city  taxes. 

56.  To  aid  the  commissioner  of  the  revenue  in  his  duties,  the 
clerks  of  the  several  courts  of  the  city  of  Richmond  and  of  the 
county  of  Henrico  shall,  as  required  respectively,  deliver  to  him 
such  lists  as  are  mentioned  in  the  seventh  and  eighth  sections  of 
the  thirty-fifth  chapter  of  the  Code  o€  Virginia  of  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty,  as  far  as  may  relate  to  lands  in  said  city. 


L869-70. 

p.  454. 


■J -J 

:>~.  As  soon  as  said  commissioner  of  the  revenue  shall  have 
ascertained  the  value  of  all  real  and  personal  property  taxable 
in  said  city,  he  shall  make  complete  schedules  of  the  same,  and 
leave  them  in  his  office  open  to  the  inspection  and  examination 
ol  all  persons  interested  therein;  and  he  shall  give  notice  by- 
six  day's  publication  in  two  of  the  daily  newspapers  of  said 
city  of  the  time  and  place,  when  and  where  such  inspection 
and  examination  may  he  made.  Said  schedules  shall  be  kept 
open  for  the  period  of  ten  days  from  the  time  of  the  first  pub- 
lit  ation  of  such  notice,  so  that  any  person  feeling  aggrieved  by 
the  assessment  of  his  or  her  property  may  appear  and  make 
his  or  her  objection.  The  said  commissioner  of  the  revenue 
shall  hear  and  consider  all  objections  which  may  be  made,  and 
shall  have  the  power  to  alter,  add  to,  take  from,  and  otherwise 
correct  and  revise  his  assessment;  and  he  shall  have  power  to 
examine  any  person  on  oath  as  to  the  value  of  his  personal 
property,  and  also  to  examine  under  oath  such  other  persons 
as  witnesses  in  relation  thereto  as  he  may  deem  proper,  and 
for  that  purpose  may  administer  oaths  and  issue  process  to 
compel  the  attendance  of  witnesses  before  him.  Any  person 
feeling  aggrieved  at  the  decision  of  the  said  commissioner  of 
the  revenue  may  appeal  to  the  city  council,  whose  decision  shall 
be  final.  Any  person  who  shall  refuse  to  make  under  oath  a 
full  disclosure  of  all  the  facts  necessary  to  enable  said  com- 
missioner of  the  revenue  to  make  a  fair  and  just  assessment 
of  his  personal  taxable  property,  when  duly  called  upon  by 
said  commissioner  of  the  revenue  so  to  do,  or  to  answer  such 
questions  as  may  be  put  to  him  in  relation  thereto,  shall  be 
assessed  a  gross  sum,  in  the  judgment  of  the  commissioner  of 
the  revenue,  double  the  correct  assessment  of  his  personal  tax- 
able property. 

58.  The  said  commissioner  of  the  revenue  may,  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  city  council,  appoint  an  assistant  or  assistants,  who 
may  be  removed  from  office  by  the  said  commissioner,  by  the 
mayor,  or  by  the  city  council.  During  the  continuance  in  office 
of  the  said  commissioner,  an  assistant  of  his  may  discharge 
any  of  the  duties  of  the  office  of  commissioner;  but  the  com- 
misioner  and  his  sureties  shall  be  liable  therefor. 

59.  The  city  council  shall  appoint  a  suitable  and  proper  per- 
son, who  shall  be  the  attorney  and  counsel  for  the  corporation, 
who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two  years,  unless  sooner 
removed,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualify. 
He  shall  receive  such  compensation  as  the  council  may  deter- 
mine, to  be  paid  by  the  city.  Said  attorney  shall  have  the 
management,  charge,  and  control  of  all  the  law  business  of 
the  corporation  and  the  departments  thereof,  and  of  all  the 
law  business  in  which  the  city  shall  be  interested;  shall 
draw  all  leases,  deeds,  and  legal  papers  for  the  same,  and 
be  the  legal  adviser  of  the  mayor,  city  council,  or  any  com- 
mittee   thereof,    and    of    the   several    departments    of    said    cor- 


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poration;  and  when  required,  shall  furnish  written  opinions 
upon  any  subjects  involving  questions  of  law  submitted  to  him 
by  them.  He  shall  appear  as  counsel  for  the  said  corporation 
in  any  civil  case  in  which  it  is  interested,  depending  in  any 
court  in  the  city  of  Richmond;  and  when  the  constitutionality 
or  validity  of  any  ordinance  is  brought  in  issue  in  any  penal 
prosecution,  or  when  the  mayor  shall  direct  a  prosecution  for 
nuisance,  he  shall  appear  for  the  prosecution  when  the  case 
shall  come  into  court.  He  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as 
are  or  may  be  required  of  him  for  the  city  by  any  ordinance 
or  resolution  of  the  city  council. 

60.  He  shall  have  power  and  authority,  from  time  to  time, 
during  his  continuance  in  office,  with  the  consent  of  the  mayor, 
to  authorize  an  attorney  or  other  person  to  appear  for  him  in 
his  name  and  on  behalf  of  said  corporation,  and  conduct  and 
defend  suits  and  proceedings  in  all  courts  and  places. 

61.  Said  attorney  for  the  corporation  shall  keep  his  office  in 
such  place  as  the  city  council  may  direct,  and  shall  keep  therein 
a  docket  of  all  the  cases  to  which  the  city  may  be  a  party  in 
any  court  of  record,  in  which  shall  be  briefly  entered  all  steps 
taken  in  such  causes;  and  said  docket  shall  at  all  times  be 
open  to  the  inspection  of  the  mayor,  the  members  of  the  city 
council,  and  the  city  auditor.  1869-70. 

62.  There  shall  be  appointed  by  the  city  council  one  engineer       p.  454. 
for   the  city,   who  shall   hold   his   office  for   the   period   of   two 

years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualify, 
unless  sooner  removed  from  office.  He  shall  give  bond,  with 
sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not  less  than  five  thousand  dollars, 
said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  city  council  and  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  city  clerk. 

63.  The  said  engineer  shall  have  such  assistants  and  clerks 
as  the  city  council  may  allow  and  approve;  but  such  assistants 
or  clerks  may  be  removed  at  any  time  by  the  mayor  or  by  the 
city  council. 

64.  The  said  engineer  shall  be  the  general  superintendent  of 
the  streets,  culverts,  public  buildings,  and  all  public  improve- 
ments. He  shall  make  such  surveys,  reports,  drawings,  plans, 
specifications,  and  estimates  as  the  city  council  may  require 
of  him,  and  do,  in  relation  thereto,  whatever  else  it  may  direct. 
All  surveys  or  other  acts,  which  shall  be  made  or  done  by  said 
engineer,  shall  be  as  valid  and  effectual  as  if  the  same  were 
done  by  a  surveyor  of  a  county.  He  shall  keep  his  office  in 
such  place  as  the  city  council  may  direct,  and  shall  keep  therein 
all  maps,  drawings,  and  papers  pertaining  to  his  office.  He  shall 
keep  a  record  of  all  his  proceedings,  and  a  set  of  books,  in 
which  shall  be  entered,  under  appropriate  heads,  the  receipts 
and  expenditures  of  his  department;  and  all  the  books  and 
papers  of  his  office  shall  be  open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection 
of  the  mayor,  to  the  members  of  the  city  council,  or  to  any  com- 
mittee or  committees  thereof. 


L874. 
p.  231. 


\>\ 

There  shall  be  one  city  dork  appointed  by  the  city  coun- 
cil, who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  period  of  two  years,  and 
until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified,  unless 
sooner  removed  from  office  by  the  city  council. 

66.  The  said  city  clerk  shall  attend  the  meetings  of  the  com- 
mon council,  and  keep  a  record  of  its  proceedings.  He  shall 
keep  all  papers  that  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  by  the 
di  root  ion  of  the  city  council,  or  either  of  its  branches,  are  re- 
quired to  be  kept  or  filed  with  him.  It  shall  also  be  his  duty 
to  make  and  present  to  the  mayor  a  transcript  of  every  ordi- 
nance, resolution  or  order  passed  by  both  of  the  branches  of 
the  city  council.  He  shall  likewise  transmit  to  the  auditor  a 
transcript  of  all  ordinances,  resolutions  or  orders  appropriating 
money,  or  authorizing  the  payment  of  money,  the  issue  of 
bonds  or  notes;  and  to  the  heads  of  all  departments  of  the  city 
government  all  ordinances,  resolutions  or  orders  relating  to 
their  departments.  He  shall  likewise  give  information  to  par- 
ties presenting  communications  or  petitions  to  the  city  council 
of  the  final  action  of  the  council  on  such  communications  or 
petitions.  He  shall  publish  such  reports  and  ordinances  as  the 
city  council  are  required  by  this  act  to  publish,  and  such  other 
reports  and  ordinances  as  the  said  council  may  direct,  and  shall, 
in  general,  perform  such  other  acts  and  duties  as  the  city  coun- 
cil, or  either  branch  thereof,  may  from  time  to  time  require  of 
him. 
1887-8.  66.  a.  As   soon    as    practicable    after   the   organization    of    the 

p.  305.  new  council,  on  the  first  day  of  July,  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-eight,  and  as  soon  as  practicable  after  the  organization 
of  each  council  elected  for  the  city  of  Richmond  every  two 
years  thereafter,  the  president  of  the  board  of  aldermen  shall 
appoint  two  members,  and  the  president  of  the  common  coun- 
cil three  members,  from  their  respective  bodies,  wno,  together 
with  five  citizens  (of  whom  two  shall  be  appointed  by  the  board 
of  aldermen  and  three  by  the  common  council),  and  the  presi- 
dent of  the  common  council  (who  shall  be  chairman  ex-officio), 
shall  constitute  a  board,  to  be  called  the  board  of  public  inter- 
ests of  the  city  of  Richmond. 
66  h.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  to  take  into  considera- 
_  one'  tion  all  works  of  internal  improvements  in  existence,  or  which 
may  be  projected  from  time  to  time;  to  look  after  the  com- 
mercial, industrial,  and  manufacturing  interests  of  the  city; 
to  watch  over  and  take  care  of  its  connections,  means  of  trans- 
portation and  communication  with  the  rest  of  the  country,  and 
to  make  such  reports  and  recommendations  to  the  city  council 
as  will  in  their  opinion  best  subserve  the  different  interests  of 
the  city  of  Richmond. 
1887-8.  66  c.  There  shall  be  a  meeting  of  this  board  at  least  once  a 

p.  305.        month,  and  as  much  oftener  as  it  shall  deem  proper. 

66  d.  In  case  of  any  vacancy  in  the  board  from  any  cause,  it 
shall  be  filled  by  the  board  from  the  class  in  which  the  vacancy 
occurred. 


1887-8 
p.  305. 


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66  e.  The   board  of  public   interests   of   said   city,    as   existing       1887-8. 
by   city  ordinance  January  first,   eighteen  hundred   and   eighty-       P-  30o. 
eight,   shall   be   and  remain   as  then  organized   until   their   suc- 
cessors are  elected  and  qualified  as  provided  by  this  act. 

CHAPTER  V. 

FINANCES. 

1  079   Q 

67.  The  city  council  may,  in  the  name  and  for  the  use  of  the  265 

city,  contract  loans  or  cause  to  be  issued  certificates  of  debt 
or  bonds;  but  such  loans,  certificates  or  bonds  shall  not  be  irre-  1874. 
deemable  for  a  period  greater  than  thirty-four  years;  provided,  P-  -1  " 
however,  that  they  shall  not  contract  such  loans  or  issue  1874-5. 
such  certificates  of  debt  or  bonds  for  the  purpose  of  sub-  P-  368. 
scribing  to  the  stock  or  appropriating  money  or  loans  1878-0. 
for  the  benefit  of  any  company  incorporated  for  a  work  of  p.  92. 
internal  improvement,  or  other  purposes,  without  first  being 
authorized  so  to  do  by  three-fourths  of  the  legal  voters  of  the 
city  voting  on  the  question;  and,  also,  by  a  majority  of  the 
registered  freeholders  of  the  city;  and  the  council  shall,  when 
such  debt  or  loan  is  created,  provide  a  sinking  fund  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  same.  Neither  shall  the  city  endorse  the  bonds  of 
any  such  company,  without  the  same  authority;  provided,  how- 
ever, that  the  said  council  may  issue,  or  cause  to  be  issued, 
bonds  for  other  purposes  than  that  for  railroad  or  internal  im- 
provement companies,  but  the  bonds  or  interest-bearing  debt 
of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  not,  in  the  aggregate,  exceed 
eighteen  per  centum  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  taxable  real 
estate  of  said  city;  and  any  excess  of  such  bonded  or  interest- 
bearing  debt  over  and  above  the  limit  herein  prescribed,  which 
may  be  created  or  issued  in  violation  of  this  provision,  shall 
be  void  as  to  said  city;  and  provided,  further,  that  the  coun- 
cil, if  authorized  by  a  majority  of  the  registered  freeholders  of 
the  city,  voting  on  a  day  to  be  fixed  by  the  council,  may  pur- 
chase the  property  and  franchises  of  the  James  River  and  Ka- 
nawha Company,  or  any  part  thereof,  and  issue  bonds,  contract 
loans,  or  cause  to  be  issued  certificates  of  debt  or  bonds  to  an 
amount  sufficient  to  raise  the  money  to  pay  for  the  same;  and 
the  amount  of  debt  which  may  be  contracted  for  that  purpose 
shall  not  be  included  in  the  said  aggregate  debt  limited  to 
eighteen  per  centum  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  taxable  real 
estate  of  the  city.  And  in  case  such  purchase  shall  be  made  of 
the  entire  property,  rights,  and  franchises  which  would  pass 
on  the  foreclosure  of  any  mortgage  on  the  same,  the  city  of 
Richmond  shall  not  only  succeed  to  the  franchises,  rights,  and 
privileges  provided  for  by  the  forty-fourth  and  forty-fifth  sec- 
tions of  chapter  sixty-one  of  the  Code  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-three,  and  be  regulated  thereby,  but  shall,  also,  have 
the   right  to  exercise   all  the  franchises,   rights,   and   privileges 


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which  may  have  been  granted  at  the  date  of  such  purchase  to 
any  internal  Improvement  company,  with  a  view  to  the  con- 
st nut  inn  of  a  railroad  along  the  lines  of  the  James  River  and 
Kanawha  canal  to  Clifton  Forge  and  Lexington;  and,  in  any 
organization  which  may  follow  such  purchase,  the  city  shall 
be  at  liberty  to  retain  as  her  own  such  part  of  said  property, 
rights,  and  franchises  as  she  may  deem  advisable. 
-       70.  There    shall    be    set    apart    annually,    from    the    accruing 

p.  155.  revenues  of  the  city,  a  sum  not  less  than  one  per  centum  of  the 
city  debt  existing  at  the  commencement  of  this  act.     The  fund 

p.  544.  thus  set  apart  shall  be  called  a  sinking  fund,  and  shall  be  ap- 
plied to  the  payment  or  purchase  of  the  principal  of  the  city 
debt.  If  no  part  be  redeemable,  then  the  residue  of  the  sinking 
fund  shall  be  invested  in  the  bonds  or  certificates  of  debt  of  the 
city,  and  applied  to  the  payment  of  the  city  debt  as  It  shall  be- 
come redeemable.  Whenever  hereafter  there  shall  be  contracted 
by  the  city  any  debt  not  payable  within  the  next  twelve  months, 
there  shall  be  set  apart  annually  for  thirty-four  years,  or  until 
the  debt  is  paid,  a  sum  exceeding  by  one  per  centum  the  aggre- 
gate amount  of  the  annual  interest  agreed  to  be  paid  thereon  at 
the  time  of  the  contract,  which  sum  shall  be  applied  and  in- 
vested towards  the  payment  of  such  debt  in  the  same  manner 
as  hereinbefore  provided  for  the  present  existing  debt  of  the 
city.  The  committee,  board,  or  city  officials,  having  charge  of 
the  sinking  fund  under  the  authority  of  the  city  council,  may 
invest  the  funds  of  the  sinking  fund  not  only  in  bonds  of  the 
city  but  also  in  those  issued  by  the  State  of  Virginia  or  by  the 
United  States.  Such  committee,  board  or  city  officials  shall 
make  to  the  city  council  quarterly  detailed  statements  of  all 
the  transactions  of  the  board  setting  forth  the  amount  and 
character  of  their  assets,  investments,  transfers,  issues,  ex- 
changes or  other  business  of  whatever  character,  including  a 
statement  of  what,  if  any,  be  due  by  the  city.  The  purchases 
made  of  the  city  bonds  may  be  made  directly  from  the  city. 

69.  For  the  execution  of  its  powers  and  duties,  the  city  coun- 
cil may  raise,  annually,  by  taxes  and  assessments  in  said  city, 
such  sums  of  money  as  they  shall  deem  necessary  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  the  same,  and  in  such  manner  as  they  shall 
deem  expedient,  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  this  State  and 
the  United  States;  provided,  howrever,  that  they  shall  impose 
no  tax  on  the  bonds  of  said  city,  nor  on  any  capital  invested  in 
real  estate  or  employed  in  manufacture  outside  the  city  limits, 
although  the  person  or  persons  engaged  in  said  business  or 
manufacture  have  a  place  of  business  in  said  city.  Neither 
shall  they  impose  any  tax  at  the  same  time  upon  the  stock  of 
the  corporation,  and  upon  the  dividends  thereon;  nor  upon  any 
capital,  interest,  income,  or  dividends  when  a  license  or  other 
tax  is  imposed  upon  the  business  in  which  the  capital  is  em- 
ployed, or  upon  the  principal  money,  credit,  or  stock  from 
which  the  interest,   income  or  dividend   is  derived.     Said  taxes 


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shall  be  equal  and  uniform  upon  all  property,  both  real  and 
personal.  The  capital  invested  in  all  business  operations  shall 
be  assessed  and  taxed  as  other  property.  Assessments  upon  all 
stock  shall  be  according  to  the  market  value  thereof. 

70.  The  city  council  may  grant  or  refuse  licenses,  and  may 
require  taxes  to  be  paid  on  such  licenses,  to  agents  of  insurance 
companies  whose  principal  office  is  not  located  in  said  city; 
to  auctioneers;  to  public,  theatrical,  or  other  performances  or 
shows;  to  keepers  of  billiard  tables,  ten-pin  alleys,  and  pistol 
galleries;  to  hawkers  and  pedlers  in  the  city,  or  persons  to  sell 
goods  by  sample  therein;  to  agents  for  the  sale  or  renting  of 
real  estate;  to  commission  merchants,  and  all  other  business 
which  cannot  be  reached  by  the  ad  valorem  system  under  the 
preceding  section.  They  may  also  grant  or  refuse  such  license 
to  all  sellers  of  wine  or  spirituous  or  fermented  liquors,  and  re- 
quire taxes  to  be  paid  on  such  license,  in  addition  to  other  taxes 
imposed. 

71.  The  council  may  grant  or  refuse  licenses  to  owners  or 
keepers  of  wagons,  drays,  carts,  hacks,  and  other  wheeled  car- 
riages kept  or  employed  in  the  city  for  hire,  and  may  require  the 
owners  or  keepers  of  wagons,  drays,  and  carts,  using  them  in 
the  city,  to  take  out  a  license  therefor,  and  may  require  taxes 
to  be  paid  thereon,  and  subject  the  same  to  such  regulations  as 
they  may  deem  proper,  and  prescribe  their  fees  and  compen- 
sation. 

72.  The  council  may  vest  in  the  collector  of  the  city  taxes, 
and  of  assessments  for  the  use  of  water,  gas,  or  other  purposes, 
any  or  all  of  the  powers  which  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be 
vested  in  a  sheriff  as  collector  of  the  State  taxes;  may  prescribe 
the  mode  of  his  proceeding,  and  the  mode  of  proceeding  against 
him  for  the  failure  to  perform  his  duties. 

73.  All  goods  and  chattels,  wheresoever  found,  may  be  dis- 
trained and  sold  for  taxes  assessed  and  due  thereon;  and  no 
deed  of  trust  or  mortgage  upon  goods  or  chattels  shall  prevent 
the  same  from  being  distrained  and  sold  for  taxes  assessed 
against  the  grantor  in  such  deed  while  such  goods  and  chattels 
remain  in  the  grantor's  possession;  nor  shall  any  such  deed 
prevent  the  goods  and  chattels  conveyed  from  being  distrained 
and  sold  for  taxes  assessed  thereon,  no  matter  in  whose  pos- 
session they  may  be  found. 

74.  Any  payment  of  taxes  made  by  the  tenant,  unless  under 
an  express  contract  contained  in  his  lease,  shall  be  a  credit 
against  the  person  to  whom  he  owes  the  rent,  and  where  any 
tax  is  paid  by  a  fiduciary  on  the  interest  of  profit  of  moneys  of  an 
estate  invested  under  an  order  of  court  or  otherwise,  the  tax 
shall  be  refunded  out  of  such  estate. 

75.  There  shall  be  a  lien  on  real  estate  for  the  city  taxes  as  1875-6. 
assessed  thereon  from  the  commencement  of  the  year  for  which  P-  286. 
they  are  assessed.  The  city  council  may  require  real  estate  in  1877-8. 
the  city  delinquent  for  the  non-payment  of  taxes,  to  be  sold  for        p.  33. 


p.  244. 


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sa id  taxes,  with  interesl  thereon  at  the  rate  of  six  per  centum 
per  annum,  and  such  percentage  as  they  may  prescribe  for 
charges.  Such  real  estate  shall  be  sold,  and  may  be  redeemed 
under  the  provisions  hereinafter  made. 

76.  The  collector  of  delinquent  taxes  shall,  under  the  direction 
of  the  city  council,  cause  a  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  such 
salo  to  be  published  in  all  the  daily  newspapers  published  in 
said  city,  at  least  ten  days  previous  to  such  sale;  and  he  shall 
also  cause  to  be  published,  in  one  or  more  of  said  daily  papers, 
on  some  day,  not  more  than  twenty  days  nor  less  than  ten  days 
previous  to  such  sale,  a  list  of  the  several  parcels  of  real  estate 
so  to  be  sold,  in  the  same  manner  as  the  same  is  described  in 
the  assessment  rolls  in  which  the  said  tax  or  assessment  is  im- 
posed thereon,  together  with  the  name  of  the  person  to  whom 
each  parcel  is  assessed,  and  the  amount  of  the  tax  or  assess- 
ment thereon. 
]Ss-  e  77.  If   such    tax    or   assessment,    and   the    percentage,    interest 

p.  L'H.  ancl  expenses  aforesaid  be  not  paid  previous  to  the  day  for 
which  said  sale  was  advertised,  or  on  some  day  immediately 
thereafter,  to  which  said  sale  may  be  adjourned,  the  collector 
of  delinquent  taxes  shall  proceed  to  make  sale  accordingly  of 
the  said  several  parcels  of  real  estate,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may 
be  necessary,  to  the  highest  bidder;  and  the  sale  may  be  ad- 
journed from  day  to  day  until  it  shall  be  completed.  On  such 
sale  the  collector  of  delinquent  taxes  shall  execute  to  the  pur- 
chaser a  certificate  of  sale,  in  which  the  property  purchased 
shall  be  described,  and  the  aggregate  amount  of  the  tax  or  as- 
sessment, with  charges  and  expenses  specified;  but  the  collector 
of  delinquent  taxes  shall  not  for  himself,  either  directly  or 
indirectly,  purchase  any  real  estate  so  sold. 
18S5-6.  78.  If  at  any  such  sale  no  bid  shall  be  made  for  any  such  par- 

p.  244.  eel  of  land,  or  such  bid  shall  not  be  equal  to  the  tax  or  assess- 
ment, with  interest  and  charges,  then  the  same  shall  be  struck 
off  to  the  city.  On  such  sale  the  collector  of  delinquent  taxes 
shall  execute  to  the  city  a  certificate  of  sale,  in  which  the  prop- 
erty purchased  shall  be  described,  and  the  aggregate  amount  of 
tax  or  assessment,  with  charges  and  expenses  specified,  and  shall 
deposit  such  certificate  with  the  auditor. 

79.  The  owner  of  any  real  estate  so  sold,  his  heirs  or  assigns, 
or  any  person  having  a  right  to  charge  such  real  estate  for  a 
debt,  may  redeem  the  same  by  paying  to  the  purchaser,  his 
heirs  or  assigns,  within  two  years  from  the  sale  thereof,  the 
amount  for  which  the  same  was  sold,  and  such  additional  taxes 
thereon  as  may  have  been  paid  by  the  purchaser,  his  heirs  or 
assigns;  or,  if  purchased  by  the  city,  with  such  additional  sums 
as  would  have  accrued  for  taxes  thereon  if  the  same  had  not 
been  purchased  for  the  city,  with  interest  on  the  said  purchase 
money  and  taxes  at  the  rate  of  twelve  per  centum  per  annum 
from  the  time  that  the  same  may  have  been  so  paid;  or  the 
same  may  be  paid  within  the  said  two  years  to  the  city  treas- 


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urer  in  any  case  in  which  the  purchaser,  his  heirs  or  assigns, 
may  refuse  to  receive  the  same,  or  may  not  reside  or  cannot  be 
found  in  the  city  of  Richmond. 

80.  Any  infant,  married  woman,  insane  person,  or  person  im- 
prisoned, whose  real  estate  may  have  been  so  sold,  or  his  heirs, 
may  redeem  the  same  by  paying  to  the  purchaser,  his  heirs  or 
assigns,  within  two  years  after  the  removal  of  the  disability, 
the  amount  for  which  the  same  was  so  sold,  with  the  neces- 
sary charges  incurred  by  the  purchaser,  his  heirs  or  assigns, 
in  obtaining  the  title  under  the  sale,  and  such  additional  taxes 
on  the  estate  as  may  have  been  paid  by  the  purchaser,  his  heirs 
or  assigns,  and  the  appraised  value  of  any  improvement  that 
may  have  been  made  thereon,  with  interest  on  the  said  items, 
at  the  rate  of  twelve  per  centum  per  annum  from  the  time  the 
same  may  have  been  paid.  Upon  such  payment  within  two 
years  after  the  removal  of  such  disability,  the  purchaser,  his 
heirs  or  assigns,  shall,  at  the  cost  of  the  original  owner,  his 
heirs  or  assigns,  convey  to  him  or  them,  by  deed  with  special 
warranty,  the  real  estate  so  sold. 

81.  The  purchaser  of  any  real  estate,  sold  for  taxes  and  not 
redeemed,  shall,  after  the  expiration  of  two  years  from  the  sale, 
obtain  from  the  city  auditor  a  deed  conveying  the  same,  wherein 
shall  be  set  forth  what  appears  in  his  office  in  relation  to  the 
sale.  When  the  purchaser  has  assigned  the  benefit  of  his  pur- 
chase, the  deed  may,  with  his  assent,  evidenced  by  his  joining 
therein,  or  by  a  writing  annexed  thereto,  be  executed  to  his 
assignee.  If  the  purchaser  shall  have  died,  his  heirs  or  assigns 
may  move  the  court  of  hustings  of  said  city  to  order  the  auditor 
to  execute  a  deed  to  such  heirs  or  assigns. 

82.  When  the  purchaser  of  any  real  estate,  sold  for  taxes,  his 
heirs  or  assigns,  shall  have  obtained  a  deed  therefor,  and  within 
sixty  days  from  the  date  of  such  deed  shall  have  caused  the 
same  to  be  recorded,  such  estate  shall  stand  vested  in  the 
grantee  in  such  deed  as  was  vested  in  the  party  assessed  with 
the  taxes  (on  account  whereof  the  sale  was  made)  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  year  for  which  the  said  taxes  were  assessed, 
notwithstanding  any  irregularity  in  the  proceedings  under  which 
the  said  grantee  claims  title,  unless  such  irregularity  appear  on 
the  face  of  the  proceedings.  And  if  it  be  alleged  that  the  taxes, 
for  the  non-payment  of  which  sale  was  made,  were  not  in  ar- 
rear,  the  party  making  such  allegation  must  establish  the  truth 
thereof  by  proving  that  the  taxes  were  paid. 

83.  In  case  that  any  real  estate,  struck  off  to  the  city  as  here- 
inbefore provided,  shall  not  be  redeemed  within  the  time  speci- 
fied, the  city  auditor  shall,  within  sixty  days  after  the  expira- 
tion of  two  years  from  the  sale,  cause  to  be  recorded  such  certi- 
ficate of  sale  with  his  oath  that  the  same  has  not  been  re- 
deemed, and  thereupon  the  said  corporation,  or  their  assignees, 
shall  acquire  an  absolute  title  to  the  same  in  fee.  The  said 
certificate  may   be  acknowledged,   proved,   and  recorded   in  the 


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same  manner  thai  deeds  are  recorded,  and  the  sakl  certificate, 
or  the  record  thereof,  or  a  copy  of  said  record,  duly  authenti- 
cated, shall  in  all  courts  and  places  be  presumptive  evidence 
of  the  facts  therein  stated,  and  of  the  regularity  and  correct- 
ness of  such  sale,  and  of  all  proceedings  prior  thereto. 

CHAPTER   VI. 

POLICE    A.Mi    FIRE    DEPARTMENTS. 

1-70.  84.  The  police  department  of  the  city   of   Richmond   shall  be 

p.  455.  under  the  general  control  and  management  of  police  eommis- 
1876-7  sioners  thereof,  who  shall  consist  of  the  mayor  and  six  citizens, 
p.  21  1.  of  whom  one  shall  reside  in  each  ward;  any  four  of  whom  shall 
constitute  a  quorum.  The  mayor  shall  be  ex-officio  president 
of  the  board,  and  shall  preside  at  its  meetings,  and  shall  have 
a  vote  in  case  of  tie.  In  his  absence  the  other  members  may 
elect   a  president  pro   tempore.     As   the  terms   of   the   commis- 


578-  i. 
p.  363. 


Extra 
Session        sioners    shall    expire   the   vacancies    in    the   board    thus    created 

p.  376.  shall  be  filled  by  election  in  the  month  of  July  of  each  year  by 
1Rn7o  the  two  branches  of  the  city  council  in  a  joint  session  for  a 
p  ;,n.  term  of  six  years.  But  no  person  shall  be  elected  who  does  not 
receive  a  majority  in  each  branch  of  the  council  of  all  the  mem- 
bers elected  to  such  branch.  The  said  board  shall  adopt  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  government  thereof;  it  may  establish, 
promulgate,  and  enforce  proper  rules,  regulations,  and  orders 
for  the  good  government  of  the  police  force;  and  in  any  investi- 
gation pertaining  to  their  duties,  shall  have  power  to  send  for 
persons  and  papers,  by  their  president  to  administer  oath;  pro- 
vided, that  said  rules  and  regulations  shall  not  in  any  way 
conflict  with  an  ordinance  of  the  city  council.  The  members 
of  the  said  board  may  be  removed  at  any  time  by  a  vote  of 
two-thirds  of  the  city  council  elected,  for  good  cause,  upon 
proper  charges  and  specifications  made  and  proved.  If  any  mem- 
ber shall  resign,  cease  to  be  a  voter,  or  a  candidate  for  any  office, 
federal,  State,  or  municipal,  there  shall  be  at  once  a  vacancy  in 
said  board,  which  shall  be  filled  as  aforesaid;  and  when  any 
member  of  the  police  commissioners  is  named  as  an  applicant 
or  candidate,  or  as  proper  to  be  supported  as  a  candidate  for 
any  office,  or  proper  person  to  receive  such  office,  the  presi- 
dent shall,  or  any  member  of  the  said  board  may,  notify  him 
that  his  name  is  mentioned  in  connection  with  such  office;  and 
if  said  member  does  not,  within  ten  days  after  the  receipt  of 
such  notice  file  with  the  president  of  the  board  his  statement 
in  writing  that  he  is  neither  candidate  nor  applicant  for  such 
office,  that  he  will  not  serve,  nor  accept  it  if  elected  or  appointed, 
the  said  board  will  declare  his  place  vacant,  which  will  be  filled 
in  the  manner  hereinbefore  prescribed.  When  vacancies  are 
filled  for  any  cause  other  than  expiration  of  term  they  shall  be 
filled  only  by  the  council  for  the  unexpired  term. 


Isc;  1-70. 
p.  455. 


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85.  The  said  commissioners,  after  taking  the  oath  of  office  as  ,  «-<,  q 
such  commissioners,  shall  meet  at  the  office  of  the  mayor,  or  p  354" 
other  suitable  place,  at  such  time  as  may  be  expedient,  and  as 

they  shall,  from  time  to  time,  designate,  and  on  special  oc- 
casions as  the  mayor  may,  in  writing,  appoint.  They  shall  per- 
form the  duties  of  said  office  without  any  compensation,  re- 
ward, or  salary  therefor  from  said  city,  except  that  nothing 
herein  shall  in  any  way  conflict  with  the  payment  of  the  salary 
elsewhere  provided  to  be  paid  to  the  said  mayor  for  his  ser- 
vices in  his  office,  and  except  that  the  members  of  the  board 
shall  be  exempt  from  all  duties  on  juries. 

86.  The  police  force  of  the  city  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
board  of  police  commissioners  as  vacancies  occur,  and  as  herein 
provided.  The  said  force  shall  consist  of  a  chief  of  police,  sur- 
geon of  police,  and  as  many  officers  and  privates  as  the  city  1876- < 
council  may  by  ordinance  prescribe,  except  that  the  force,  "'  "  >- 
officers  and  privates  shall  not  be  reduced  below  its  present  num-  1878-9. 
ber.  The  present  police  force  shall  hold  their  positions  for  the  P-  364. 
terms  for  which  they  were  appointed,  and  as  the  said  terms  1887. 
shall  expire,  new  appointments  shall  be  made  by  the  said  board  Extra 
of  police  commissioners.  All  new  appointments,  including  the  Session 
chief,  shall  be  for  three  years.  The  pay  of  the  police  shall  be  P-  <J//- 
fixed  by  the  city  council  by  ordinance.     The  chief  of  polioe  shall 

be  responsible  for  the  discipline  and  efficiency  of  the  police 
force.  All  orders  shall  pass  through  him,  except  so  far  as  the 
rules,  regulations,  and  orders  of  the  board  of  police  commis- 
sioners authorizes  orders  to  be  given  direct  to  any  subordinate 
on  the  police  force.  In  addition  to  the  power  of  dismissal  vested 
in  the  chief,  any  member  of  the  force,  including  the  chief,  may 
be  removed,  suspended,  or  fined  by  the  board  of  police  com- 
missioners upon  proper  cause  shown,  and  in  cases  where  a  fine 
is  imposed,  may  order  the  same  to  be  deducted  from  his  pay. 
The  board  of  public  interests  shall  remain  as  now  constituted 
by  ordinances  of  the  said  city,  and  the  police  commissioners  ap- 
pointed by  or  elected  under  this  act  shall  continue  in  office 
until  their  successors  shall  be  duly  elected  and  qualified. 

87.  In  time  of  exigency  said  commissioners,  or  a  majority  of  ,  n~o  q 
them,  or  any  one  of  them,  if  the  others  should  be  absent  from  ,-,  3(35" 
the  city  or  unable  to  act,  may  appoint  temporarily  without 
authority  from  the  city  council  a  suitable  number  of  additional 
policemen  for  such  time  as  shall  appear  necessary,  not,  however, 
to  extend  beyond  the  next  meeting  of  the  city  council.  The 
maj-or  may  confer  police  powers  upon  the  clerks  of  the  markets 
and  their  deputies,  keepers  of  parks  and  cemeteries  and  their 
subordinates,  watchmen  and  custodians  of  the  city  reservoirs, 
and  janitor  or  superintendent  of  the  city  hall  and  his  subordi- 
nates, and  such  other  officers  or  employees  and  their  subordi- 
nates, of  the  city  as  shall  have  custody  of  any  other  piece  or 
part  of  the  city's  property  so  as  to  authorize  them  to  prevent 
any  violation  of  any  law  or  city  ordinance,  within  or  upon  such 


1891-2. 
p.  660. 


p.  482. 


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pieces  or  parts  of  the  city  property  as  may  be  under  their  charge 
or  custody,  and  to  prevent  any  injury  or  damage  from  being 
done  to  such  pieces  or  parts  of  the  city  property;  and  the  bailiff 
of  the  police  court  shall  have  police  powers  when  acting  under 
the  orders  of  the  police  justice  of  the  city. 
1070.9  88.  The  mayor,  at  any  time,  upon  charges  being  preferred  or 

upon  finding  said  chief  or  any  other  member  of  said  police 
force  guilty  of  misconduct,  shall  have  power  to  suspend  such 
member  from  service,  until  the  board  of  commissioners  shall 
convene  and  take  action  in  the  matter;  provided,  however,  that 
such  member  shall  not  remain  so  suspended  for  a  longer- period 
than  thirty  days  without  an  opportunity  of  being  heard  in  his 
defence;  and  upon  hearing  the  proofs  in  the  case,  a  majority  of 
said  commissioners  may  discharge,  suspend,  or  fine,  or  restore 
such  chief  or  member,  in  accordance  with  the  decision  of  the 
majority  of  such  board  thereon;  and  the  pay  or  salary  of  such 
member  shall  cease  from  the  time  of  suspension  to  the  time  of 
restoration  to  service,  unless  otherwise  ordered  by  said  board  of 
commissioners  in  their  written  decision,  which  shall  be  filed 
with  the  city  clerk;  and  any  violation  of  the  rules,  regulations, 
or  orders  of  "the  board,  or  orders  of  any  superior,  shall  be  good 
cause  for  dismissal,  suspension,  or  fine. 
1878-9.  89.  The   salary   or   pay  of  said   chief  and   policemen   shall   be 

p.  3.66.        determined  by  the  city  council,  and  the  pay-roll  and  all  bills  of 
expense  on  account  of  the  police   department  shall   be   audited 
and  approved  by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on  police  be- 
fore payment. 
1878-0.  90.  The   said   chief   of   police,    and   every   policeman    duly   ap- 

p.  366.  pointed  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  issued  to  him  a  warrant  of  ap- 
pointment, signed  by  the  president  of  the  board  and  counter- 
signed by  the  city  clerk,  stating  the  date  of  his  appointment, 
which  shall  be  his  commission;  and  he  shall  take  such  oath  as 
the  city  council  may  ordain,  and  subscribe  the  same  in  a  book 
to  be  kept  for  that  purpose  by  the  said  city  clerk. 
1878-9.  91.  The    said    chief    of   police    and    policemen    shall    generally 

p.  366.  have  power  to  do  whatever  may  be  necessary  to  preserve  the 
good  order  and  peace  of  said  city,  and  to  secure  its  inhabitants 
from  personal  violence  and  their  property  from  loss  and  injury. 
Such  members  of  the  said  police  force  as  the  police  commissioners 
may  designate,  shall,  in  criminal  cases,  have  the  same  powers 
and  duties,  and  be  subject  to  the  same  penalties  that  are  pre- 
scribed by  law  as  to  constables.  All  fees  and  allowances  aris- 
ing from  the  exercise  of  such  powers  shall  be  collected  by  the 
chief  of  police,  and  held  subject  to  the  order  of  the  board  of 
police  commissioners. 
1891-9  ^  (L  That   the   jurisdiction    and    authority    of    the    chief    of 

p.  905.  police  of  the  city  of  Richmond  and  other  officers  and  members 
of  the  said  city  police,  and  of  the  justices  and  other  judicial 
officers  of  said  city  connected  with  the  administration  of  its 
police,  be,   and  the  same  is  hereby,   extended  to  and   over  the 


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grounds  and  the  property  of  the  Virginia  State  Agricultural  and 
Mechanical  Society,  situated  on  the  extension  of  Broad  street 
of  said  city,  and  to  and  over  the  highways  and  grounds  in  • 
'  Henrico  county  adjacent  thereto,  not  to  exceed  five  hundred 
yards  in  any  direction;  and  on  the  request  or  with  the  assent 
of  said  Virginia  State  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Society,  its 
officers  or  agents,  the  said  police  and  other  authorities  of  said 
city  shall  have  ana  exercise  the  full  and  ilke  powers  in  all  re- 
spects in  and  over  said  extended  district  as  they  do  now  or  may 
hereafter  have  and  exercise  within  the  corporate  limits  of  said 
city. 

92.  The  said  board  of  commissioners  may  prescribe  such  uni-  1878-9 
form  and  badges  for  the  police  force  as  they  may  deem  proper,  p.  366. 
and   change   the   same   after   six   months'    notice,    and    direct   in 

what  manner  they  shall  be  armed.  And  if  any  person,  other 
than  a  policeman,  shall  publicly  wear  such  uniform  and  badges 
as  may  be  prescribed  as  aforesaid,  he  may  be  subjected  to  such 
fine,  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  as  the  city 
council  may  advise. 

93.  Subdivision  I.  The  fire  and  fire-alarm  departments  of  the       1898-9. 

city  of  Richmond  shall  be  under  the  direction  and  control  of  a  /7-P"      ,    . 

(Repealec 
board   composed   of   six   citizens,   voters   in   said   city,    of  whom    ' 

one  shall  reside  m  each  ward;  such  board  to  be  called  the  board       1887-8. 
of  fire  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Richmond.     As  the   terms       P' 
of   the   commissioners  shall   expire   the  vacancies   in   the  board       1897-8. 
thus  created  shall  be  filled  by  election  in  the  month  of  July  of       P-  545. 
each  year  by  the  two  branches  of  the  city  council  in  joint  ses- 
sion  for  six  years.     But  no  person  shall   be   elected  who   does 
not  receive  a  majority  in  each  branch  of  the  council  of  all  the 
members    elected    to    such    branch.     All   vacancies    except   those 
occurring  from  expiration  of  term  shall  be  filled  by  the  council 
for  the  unexpired  term. 

II.  The  members  of  the  first  board  of  fire  commissioners 
elected  under  this  act  shall  hold  their  offices  for  one,  two,  three, 
four,  five  and  six  years  respectively,  from  the  first  day  of  July, 
eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  and  until  their  successors  are 
elected  and  qualified  in  the  month  of  July,  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-nine,  and  in  July  in  each  succeeding  year  thereafter 
one  member  of  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  be 
elected  in  the  same  manner  as  above  provided,  to  fill  the 
vacancy  which  will  then  be  caused  by  the  expiration  of  the 
term  of  one  member.  All  members  thus  elected  to  fill  a 
vacancy  caused  by  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  a  member,  shall 
be  elected  for  a  term  of  six  years  from  the  time  of  said  expira- 
tion. The  members  of  the  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  not 
receive  any  compensation  for  their  services  as  sucn.  They  may 
be  removed  from  office  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members 
elected  to  the  council  for  good  cause  shown;  ana  any  member 
who  shall  during  his  term  of  office  be  nominated  for  any  office 
elected  by  the  people,   and  shall  not  decline  the  said  nomina- 


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(ion    ten    days    from   the   time   he    has  notice   thereof,    shall    be 
deemed  ipso  facto  to  have  vacated  his  office. 

111.  The  members  of  the  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall 
meet  on  the  second  day  of  July,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty- 
<  Ight,  al  the  headquarters  of  the  fire  department,  or  other  suit- 
able place,  and  after  taking  the  oath  of  office,  proceed  to  orga- 
nize by  electing  one  of  their  number  president,  and  by  electing 
a  secretary.  They  shall  then  proceed  to  draw  lots,  and  by  num- 
bers, for  the  term  of  office  that  each  shall  serve — that  is  to  say, 
the  member  drawing  the  lowest  number  shall  serve  one  year; 
the  one  drawing  next  lowest  number,  two  years;  and  so  on  until 
each  member  shall  have  designated  his  term  by  the  number 
drawn  by  him.  Four  members  of  the  board  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business.  Each  member  of  the 
board  shall  be  entitled  to  one  vote,  and  the  board  may  deter- 
mine the  manner  in  which  any  vote  may  be  taken  on  any  sub- 
ject brought  before  it.  The  said  board  shall  have  power  to  elect 
a  president  pro  tempore,  to  serve  in  the  absence,  or  in  case  of 
the  temporary  disability  of  the  president. 

Subdivision  IV.  The  force  of  the  police  department  of  the 
p.  545.  city  of  Richmond  shall  be  appointed  by  said  board  of  fire  com- 
missioners as  herein  provided.  The  said  force  shall  consist  of 
a  chief  engineer,  one  or  more  assistant  engineers,  and  a  secre- 
tary, and  as  many  foremen,  station-men,  hose-men  and  ladder- 
men  as  from  time  to  time  may  be  required,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
said  board,  except  that  the  total  number  of  the  force  shall  not  be 
increased,  without  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  above  its 
present  number.  The  chief  engineer,  assistant  engineers,  secre- 
tary and  other  members  of  the  department  shall  be  appointed 
for  a  period  of  three  years.  The  said  officers  and  members  of 
the  fire  department  may  be  removed  by  the  said  board  for  cause 
at  any  time,  or  such  fines  or  suspensions  may  be  imposed  for 
cause,  as  the  board  may  deem  proper,  as  hereinafter  provided. 
In  any  investigation  pertaining  to  duties  the  board  shall  have 
power  to  send  for  persons  and  papers,  and  by  their  presiding 
officer  administer  an  oath.  The  board  of  fire  commissioners 
are  hereby  empowered  to  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  chief 
engineer,  assistant  engineers,  secretary,  as  well  as  of  other  mem- 
bers or  employees  of  the  fire  department,  assigning  to  them  such 
duties  in  the  department  as  the  board  shall  deem  proper. 

V.  The  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  have  and  exercise 
fully  and  exclusively  all  powers  necessary  for  the  government, 
management,  maintenance,  and  direction  of  the  fire  and  fire- 
alarm  departments  of  the  city,  and  the  premises  and  property 
thereof.  All  real  estate,  fire  apparatus,  hose,  implements,  bells, 
and  bell-towers,  fire-telegraph,  and  all  property  of  whatever 
nature  in  use  by  the  firemen,  or  fire  and  fire-alarm  departments 
of  the  city  belonging  to  said  city,  shall  be  under  the  control  of 
the  fire  commissioners,  and  for  the  use  of  said  departments, 
but  the  said  property  shall  remain  the  property  of  the  city  of 


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Richmond,  subject  to  the  public  uses  of  said  departments  as 
aforesaid,  and  for  the  purposes  provided  by  this  act.  The  said 
board  shall,  subject  to  the  other  provisions  of  this  act,  have  full 
power  to  provide  supplies,  horses,  tools,  implements,  and  appa- 
ratus of  any  and  all  kinds  incident  to  or  to  be  used  in  the  con- 
trol, prevention,  and  extinguishment  of  fires,  and  for  fire-tele- 
graph purposes;  food  and  provender  for  horses  of  said  depart- 
ments; and  to  buy,  sell,  construct,  repair,  and  have  the  care  of 
the  same,  and  to  take  any  and  all  such  action  in  the  premises 
as  it  may  deem  to  be  reasonable,  necessary  and  proper.  The 
said  board  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  city  council,  increase 
the  number  of  companies  in  service  as  from  time  to  time  they 
may  deem  necessary. 

VI.  The  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  have  exclusive 
right  and  power,  from  time  to  time,  to  designate  and  fix  the 
location  of  all  fire-alarms  telegraph,  signal  and  alarm  stations  in 
the  city,  and  shall  have  access  to  and  the  control  of  the  same 
for  the  purposes  of  the  departments. 

VII.  The  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall,  subject  to  the 
other  provisions  of  this  act,  provide  such  offices  and  business 
accommodations  as  may  be  requisite  for  the  transaction  of  the 
business  of  the  departments.  The  board  of  fire  commissioners 
may  adopt  a  common  seal  and  direct  its  use. 

VIII.  The  city  attorney  shall  be  the  attorney  for  the  board 
of  fire  commissioners,  and  shall  perform  such  duties,  connected 
with  the  departments  under  their  control,  as  are  prescribed 
herein,  or  as  may  be  properly  required  of  him  by  the  board  of 
fire  commissioners. 

IX.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  fire  commissioners 
to  make  such  suitable  regulations  for  the  government  of  the 
officers,  men  and  property  of  the  fire  and  fire-alarm  departments 
of  said  city  as  it  may  deem  necessary  and  proper  for  the  con- 
trol and  management  of  the  same. 

X.  No  person  holding  office  by  appointment  of  the  board  of 
fire  commissioners  shall  be  liable  to  military  or  jury  duty  nor 
to  arrest  on  civil  process  while  in  the  actual  performance  of 
duty  in  answer  to  an  alarm  of  fire. 

XI.  Every  member  of  the  departments  herein  named  shall 
take  an  oath  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties,  and  sub- 
scribe the  same  before  a  member  of  the  board  of  fire  commis- 
sioners. 

XII.  The  board  shall  have  power,  in  its  discretion,  on  convic- 
tion of  a  member  of  the  force  of  any  offence  against  its  rules 
or  neglect  of  duty,  or  neglect  or  disobedience  of  orders,  or  in- 
capacity or  absence  without  leave,  or  immoral  conduct,  or  con- 
duct unbecoming  an  officer,  or  other  breach  of  discipline,  to 
punish  the  offending  party  by  reprimand,  forfeiture,  and  with- 
holding of  pay  for  a  specific  time,  or  by  dismissal  from  the  force. 

XIII.  The  said  board  shall  fix  the  salaries  and  compensation 
of   the   officers    and    members    of   the   fire   department,    but   the 


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such  Balaries  and  compensations  shall  not  be  re- 
duced  below  the  sum  appropriated  by  the  city  council  annually 
for  pay-rolls  of  the  said  departments  at  the  date  of  the  passage 
of  this  act,  and  they  may  be  increased  only  by  the  city  council 
after  recommendation  of  the  said  board. 

XIV.  The  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  appoint  a 
superintendent  of  tire-alarms,  and  such  other  employees  as  the 
proper  working  of  the  fire-alarm  department  may  require,  and 
shall  fix  their  compensation;  such  compensation  to  be  not  less 
than  that  paid  such  employees  at  the  date  of  the  passage  of 
this  act,  and  may  be  increased  only  by  the  council  after  recom- 
mendation of  said  board  of  fire  commissioners. 

XV.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  fire  commissioners 
once  in  each  year,  and  oftener  if  necessary,  to  submit  to  the  city 
council,  in  writing,  a  classified  estimate  of  what  funds  will  be 
needed  for  the  proper  maintenance  and  growth  of  the  fire  and 
fire-alarm  departments,  and  to  request  the  council  to  make  ap- 
propriations accordingly.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  coun- 
cil to  appropriate  annually,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
board  of  fire  commissioners,  such  sums  of  money  as  said  council 
shall  deem  sufficient  for  the  proper  maintenance  of  both  fire 
and  fire-alarm  departments,  for  pay-rolls,  expense,  equipment 
and  construction;  provided  such  appropriations  shall  not  be  re- 
duced below  the  sums  appropriated  to  the  said  fire  and  fire-alarm 
departments  for  the  fiscal  year  eighteen  hundred  and*  eighty- 
seven-eighty-eight.  The  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  are 
authorized  and  empowered  to  draw  wrarrants  on  the  auditor  of 
the  city  to  pay  claims  against  said  departments,  said  warrants 
to  be  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board  or  by  a  president  pro 
tempore,  to  be  appointed  by  the  said  board  as  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided, after  the  same  shall  have  been  approved  by  the  board 
in  regular  session. 

XVI.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  unlawful  for  the  board  of 
fire  commissioners,  or  any  member  thereof,  to  be  personally 
interested  in  any  contract,  purchasers,  or  sales  made  for  the 
department  under  their  control;  or  in  any  way,  directly  or  in- 
directly, to  receive  compensation  or  profit  arising  from  the  per- 
formance of  the  duties  of  their  office,  and  any  member  of  said 
board  who  shall  be  found  guilty  thereof  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  or  confinement  in  the 
city  jail  not  exceeding  six  months. 

XVII.  The  said  board  shall  keep,  in  a  book  to  be  prepared  by 
them  for  the  purpose,  a  detailed  account  of  their  expenditures, 
and  shall  report  said  expenditures  to  the  city  council  at  its  first 
meeting  in  the  months  of  January  and  July  of  each  year,  and 
they  shall  be  at  all  times  prepared  to  substantiate  such  ex- 
penditures by  proper  papers  and  vouchers.  They  shall  also  re- 
port to  the  city  council  at  its  first  meeting  in  January  in  each 
year  the  condition  of  the  departments  under  their  control,  with 
all  information  germain  thereto  and  not  prejudicial  to  the  ser- 
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XVIII.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  interfere  in 
any  manner  with  any  contract  or  agreement  that  may  exist  at 
the  date  of  the  passage  of  this  act  between  the  city  of  Rich- 
mond and  any  railway,  telephone  or  telegraph  company  in  refer- 
ence to  the  occupancy  of  the  streets  by  telegraph  or  telephone 
wires. 

XIX.  The  tire  and  fire-alarm  departments  of  the  city  of 
Richmond  shall  remain  as  at  present  organized,  until  July  the 
second,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  at  which  time  the 
said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  proceed  to  organize  the 
said  departments  as  herein  described,  and  to  assume  all  the 
powers  and  duties  conferred  upon  them  by  this  act. 

XX.  All  acts  or  portions  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act  are 
hereby  repealed. 

94.  For  the  purpose  of  guarding  against  the  calamities  of  fire,  1891-2. 
the  city  council  may,  from  time  to  time,  designate  such  portions  P-  6*30. 
and  parts  of  the  said  city  as  it  shall  think  proper  within  which  no  1897-8. 
buildings  of  wood  shall  be  erected.  They  may  prohibit  the  erec-  p.  545. 
tion  of  wooden  buildings  in  any  portion  of  the  city  without  per- 
mission obtained  from  them.  They  may  authorize  the  board  of 

fire  commissioners,  and  the  chief  of  the  fire  department  to  per- 
mit the  erection  of  wooden  buildings  in  any  portion  of  the  city, 
except  such  as  the  council  may  have  designated  as  portions 
within  which  no  buildings  of  wood  shall  be  erected:  provided, 
however,  that  no  building  of  wood  or  addition  to  such  a  build- 
ing shall  be  erected  in  any  square  of  the  city,  when  and  after 
the  owner  or  owners  of  at  least  one-fourth  of  the  ground  in- 
cluded therein  shall  have  petitioned  the  council  by  a  petition 
filed  with  the  city  clerk  to  prohibit  the  erection  in  the  said 
square  of  buildings  of  wood  unless  the  outer  walls  of  the  build- 
ing to  be  erected  shall  be  made  of  brick  and  mortar,  or  stone 
and  mortar  or  some  other  fire-proof  material,  and  may  provide 
for  the  removal  of  any  such  building  or  addition  which  shall 
be  erected  contrary  to  such  prohibition,  at  the  expense  of  the 
builder  or  owner  thereof,  and  if  any  building  shall  have  been 
been  commenced  before  said  petition  can  be  acted  on  by  the 
council,  or  if  a  building  in  progress  appears  clearly  to  be  un- 
safe, the  council  may  have  such  building  taken  down.  For  the 
purpose  of  guarding  against  fire  and  of  insuring  the  erection  of 
safe  buildings,  the  council  may  pass  any  reasonable  regulation 
as  to  the  manner  and  materials  of  construction  of  all  buildings. 

95.  Whenever  any  building  in  the  said  city  shall  be  on  fire, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  and  be  lawful  for  the  chief  engineer  to 
order  and  direct  such  building,  or  any  other  building  which  he 
may  deem  hazardous  and  likely  to  communicate  fire  to  other 
buildings,  or  any  part  of  such  buildings,  to  be  pulled  down  and 
destroyed;  and  no  action  shall  be  maintained  against  any  per- 
son or  against  the  said  city  therefor.  But  any  person  interested 
in  any  such  building  so  destroyed  or  injured,  may,  within  three 
months  thereafter,  apply  to  the  city  council  to  assess  and  pay 


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the  damages  he  has  sustained.  At  the  expiration  of  the  three 
months,  if  any  such  application  shall  have  been  made  in  writ- 
ing, the  ci(>  council  shall  either  pay  the  said  claimant  such 
sum  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  by  them  and  the  said  claimant  for 
such  damages,  or  if  no  such  agreement  shall  be  effected,  shall 
proceed  to  ascertain  the  amount  of  such  damages,  and  shall 
provide  for  the.  appraisal,  assessment,  collection,  and  payment 
of  the  same  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  for  the  ascertain- 
ment, assessment,  collection,  and  payment  of  damages  sustained 
by  the  taking  of  land  for  purposes  of  public  improvement. 

9G.  The  'commissioners  appointed  to  appraise  and  assess  the 
damages  incurred  by  the  said  claimant,  by  the  pulling  down  or 
destruction  of  such  building,  or  any  part  thereof,  by  the  direc- 
tion of  the  said  officers  of  the  city,  as  above  provided,  shall  take 
into  account  the  probability  of  the  same  having  been  destroyed 
or  injured  by  fire  if  it  had  not  been  so  pulled  down  or  de- 
stroyed, and  may  report  that  no  damages  should  equitably  be 
allowed  to  such  claimant.  Whenever  a  report  shall  be  made 
and  finally  confirmed,  in  the  said  proceedings  for  appraising 
and  assessing  the  damages,  a  compliance  with  the  terms  thereof 
by  the  city  council  shall  be  deemed  a  full  satisfaction  of  all 
said  damages  of  the  said  claimant.  But  any  party  feeling  ag- 
grieved thereby,  may  appeal  to  the  circuit  court  of  the  city  of 
Richmond,  which  court,  in  taking  jurisdiction  thereof,  shall 
be  controlled  by  the  laws  regulating  assessment  of  damages 
to  real  estate  in  other  cases. 

CHAPTER  VII. 

THE    JUDICIARY. 

97.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  said  city, 
at  the  first  charter  election,  and  every  six  years  thereafter,  one 
clerk  for  the  circuit  court,  one  clerk  for  the  hustings  court, 
and  one  clerk  for  the  chancery  court  of  the  city  of  Richmond, 
who  shall  serve  for  the  period  of  six  years,  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors be  elected  and  qualify.  They  shall  receive,  in  compen- 
sation for  their  services,  the  fees  and  emoluments  allowed  by 
law  to  clerks  of  the  circuit  courts. 

98.  There  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  charter  election,  and 
every  two  years  thereafter,  by  the  qualified  voters  of  said  city, 
one  Commonwealth's  attorney  for  the  circuit  court,  who  shall 
also  prosecute  in  all  cases  in  the  hustings  court  of  the  city  of 
Richmond.  He  shall  hold  his  office  for  a  term  of  two  years, 
and  until  his  successor  be  elected  and  qualify,  unless  sooner 
removed,  and  shall  receive  such  compensation  for  his  services 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  law. 

99.  There  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  charter  election,  and 
every  two  years  thereafter,  by  the  qualified  voters  of  said  city, 
one  sheriff  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  who  shall,  before  entering 


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upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  give  hond,  with  good  security,  in 
a  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  nor 
more  than  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  as  shall  be  required 
by  the  judge  before  whom  he  shall  execute  the  same,  whose 
powers  and  duties,  liability,  responsibility,  emoluments,  and 
term  of  office  shall  be,  so  far  as  not  inconsistent  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  the  same  as  now  provided  by  law  in  respect 
to  the  sheriff  of  the  city  of  Richmond. 

100.  There  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  charter  election,   and       1897-8. 
every  two  years  thereafter  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  said       p.  546. 
city,  one  city  sergeant,  who  shall  serve  for  two  years  until  his 
successor   be   elected   and    qualify,    unless    sooner   removed.     He 

shall  keep  his  office  in  such  a  place  as  the  city  council  may  pro- 
vide and  appoint,  and  shall  receive  such  compensation  for  his 
services  as  the  city  council  shall  determine.  He  shall,  as  city 
jailor,  pay  the  salaries  of  all  the  deputies  or  guards  needed  and 
appointed  for  the  safe-keeping  of  the  prisoners  in  the  city  jail, 
and  the  city  shall  nowise  responsible  be  therefor,  except  guards 
appointed  by  the  court  when  the  same  are  necessary  on  ac- 
count of  the  insecurity  of  the  jail.  Before  entering  upon  the 
duties  of  his  office  the  said  city  sergeant  shall  give  bond  and 
security  in  such  amount  as  the  city  council  shall  determine, 
which  bond  shall  be  approved  by  the  said  city  council,  entered  on 
their  records  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk. 

101.  The  said  sergeant  shall  attend  the  terms  of  the  court  of 
hustings,  and  act  as  the  officer  thereof.  He  shall  also  in  all 
respects,  except  as  to  the  collection  of  taxes,  have  the  same 
powers  and  authority,  and  shall  perform  the  duties,  and  be 
subject  to  the  same  liabilities  and  penalties,  and  be  proceeded 
against  in  the  same  manner  as  sheriffs. 

102.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  1874. 
of  Richmond,  at  the  first  charter  election,  one  high  constable  P-  2^2- 
for  said  city,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two  years, 

and  until  his  successor  be  appointed  and  qualify,  unless  sooner 
removed  from  office.  Said  high  constable  shall  keep  his  office 
in  such  convenient  place  in  the  city  as  may  be  designated  by 
the  city  council,  and  shall'  receive  such  compensation  for  his 
services  as  the  said  council  shall  determine.  He  shall  in  civil 
cases  have  the  same  powers  and  duties  and  be  subject  to  the 
same  penalties  as  prescribed  by  law  to  other  constables,  and 
shall  perform  such  duties  as  the  city  council  may  ordain,  not  in 
conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  laws  of  this  State, 
or  the  laws  of  the  United  States. 

103.  Before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  the  said 
high  constable  shall  give  bond  and  security,  in  such  amount 
as  shall  be  required  by  the  city  council,  for  the  faithful  dis- 
charge of  the  duties  of  his  office;  which  bond  shall  be  ap- 
proved by  the  said  council,  entered  on  their  record,  and  filed 
in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk.  Said  high  constable  may  appoint 
one  or   more   deputies   to   attend   to   and   execute   the   duties   of 


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his  office;  but  the  sureties  on  the  bond  of  the  high  constable 
shall  be  equally  liable  for  the  acts  of  the  deputy  or  deputies 
as  for  those  of  their  principal. 

104.  The  sergeant  of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  be  the  officer 
of  the  hustings  court,  and  the  sheriff  of  the  city  of  Richmond 
shall  be  the  officer  of  the  circuit  court,  and  also  of  the  chancery 
court. 
1869-70.  105.  There  shall  be  appointed   by  the  city  council   one  police 

p.  4>t>.  justice,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two  years, 
and  until  his  successor  shall  be  elected  and  qualified,  unless 
sooner  removed  from  office.  The  police  justice  shall  hold 
a  court  daily  in  said  city  (Sundays  excepted),  in  such 
place  as  the  city  council  may  provide  and  appoint.  The  juris- 
diction of  the  court  shall  extend  to  all  cases  arising  within  the 
jurisdictional  limits  of  the  city,  of  which  a  justice  of  the  peace 
may  take  cognizance  under  the  laws  of  the  State,  and  to  all 
cases  arising  under  the  charter  or  ordinances  of  the  city,  or 
where  there  is  a  claim  against  the  city  or  a  person  therein,  if 
it  does  not  exceed  one  hundred  dollars,  exclusive  of  interest; 
and  the  judgment  shall  be  final  in  all  civil  cases  where  the 
matter  in  controversy,  exclusive  of  costs,  is  not  more  than 
twenty  dollars.  He  shall  have  such  other  powers  and  juris- 
diction as  may  be  conferred  upon  him  by  the  city  council,  not 
in  conflict  with  the  Constitution  and  laws  of  the  United  States 
and  of  the  State  of  Virginia.  The  city  council  may  provide  for 
the  appointment  of  such  clerks  and  officers  for  said  court  of  the 
police  justice,  and  make  such  rules  for  the  government  of  said 
court,  as  they  may  find  proper.  If  any  person  who  has  been 
duly  summoned  as  a  witness  to  attend  and  give  evidence  before 
the  police  justice,  touching  any  matter  or  thing  pending  before 
him  under  the  charter  or  any  ordinance  of  the  city,  shall  fail  to 
attend  in  obedience  to  said  summons,  he  or  she  may  be  fined, 
at  the  discretion  of  the  said  justice,  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty 
dollars. 
1869-70.  -^6.  There    shall    be   elected    by   the    qualified    voters    of    each 

p.  456.  ward  three  justices  of  the  peace  for  each  ward  of  the  said  city, 
who  shall  be  residents  of  their  respective  wards,  and  shall  hold 
office  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and  until  their  successors  be 
elected  and  qualify,  unless  sooner  removed  from  office.  They 
shall  be  designated  by  the  city  council  as  first,  second,  third, 
et  cetera,  justices.  The  said  justices  of  the  peace  shall  be  con- 
servators of  the  peace  within  the  limits  of  the  corporation  of 
Richmond,  and  shall  have  the  same  powers  and  duties  within 
said  limits  as  are  provided  by  law  in  respect  to  justices  of  the 
peace  in  the  counties  of  this  State  in  their  respective  counties, 
except  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  as  vest- 
ing in  said  justices  any  portion  of  the  jurisdiction  given  by 
act  to  the  police  justice.  Whenever  the  police  justice  shall  be 
absent  from  the  city,  or  unable,  from  any  cause,  to  hold  his 
court,  the  same  shall  be  holden  by  a  justice  of  the  peace,  to  be 


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designated  by  the  council.  And  when  the  said  court  sliall  be 
holden  by  a  justice  of  the  peace  six  or  more  days  in  succession, 
he  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  therefor  the  same  compensation, 
pro  rata,  ihat  may  be  prescribed  as  salary  to  the  police  justice. 

107.  Any  officer,  who  by  the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  Rich- 
mond is  required  to  be  elected  or  appointed  by  the  city  council, 
shall  be  elected  or  appointed  by  the  two  branches  in  joint  meet- 
ing. The  president  of  the  board  of  aldermen  shall  preside  at 
such  joint  meeting,  and  each  member  of  the  two  branches  shall 
be  entitled  to  one  vote  in  all  joint  meetings  of  the  two  boards. 

108.  All  ordinances,  resolutions,  and  acts  of  the  city  council 
shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  each  branch,  and  shall  be 
presented  to  the  mayor  for  his  approval,  who,  if  he  objects 
thereto,  shall,  within  five  days  after  it  shall  have  been  presented 
to  him  for  his.  assent,  return  it  to  that  branch  of  the  city  coun- 
cil in  which  it  originated,  with  his  objection  in  writing,  and  if  a 
majority  of  the  whole  number  of  the  members  of  each  branch 
shall  be  of  opinion  that  the  ordinance,  resolution,  or  act  ought 
to  be  passed,  it  shall,  notwithstanding  the  objections  of  the 
mayor,  become  a  law. 

109.  The  board  of  aldermen  may  appoint  a  clerk,  who  shall 
attend  the  meetings  of  said  board,  and  keep  a  record  of  its  pro- 
ceedings, and  shall  perform  such  other  acts  and  duties  as  the 
said  board  may  from  time  to  time  require  of  him. 

110.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act  are 
hereby  repealed. 

111.  This  act  shall  be  force  from  its  passage. 


BOUNDARIES  OF  THE  CITY  OF  RICHMOND, 


AN  ACT 

TO      EXTEND     AND     DEFINE      THE      BOUNDARIES      OF      THE      CITY      OF 

RICHMOND. 

(Approved  February  13,  1867.) 

1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  general  assembly,  That  the  boundaries 
of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  be  extended  and  defined  as  follows: 
The  said  city  of  Richmond  shall  extend,  on  its  southern 
boundary,  to  the  line  which  now  divides  the  counties  of  Henrico 
and  Chesterfield,  from  a  yoint  in  said  dividing  line,  which  will 
be  struck  by  the  extension  of  the  western  line  of  the  city  limits, 
across  the  river  to  said  dividing  line,  to  a  point  in  said  dividing 
line  which  will  be  struck  by  the  extension  of  the  eastern  line  of 
the  city  limits,  across  the  river,  to  said  dividing  line;  and  shall 
include  all  the  territory  lying  between  the  present  southern 
limits  of  said  city  and  the  said  dividing  line,  and  between  said 
western  and  eastern  lines  extended  as  aforesaid. 

2.  The  other  boundaries  of  said  city  shall  be  as  follows:  Be- 
ginning at  a  point  in  the  line  which  divides  the  counties  of 
Henrico  and  Chesterfield,  which  will  be  struck  by  the  exten- 
sion southwardly  of  the  western  line  of  Hollywood  Ceme- 
tery, and  running  thence  northwardly  to  the  southern  line 
of  Clark's  spring  property,  now  belonging  to  the  city  of 
Richmond;  thence  along  said  line  and  the  extension  of  the  same 
to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  west  of  the  western  line  of 
Randolph  street;  thence  northwardly  and  on  a  line  parallel  with 
said  Randolph  street,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  from  its 
western  line  to  a  point  on  said  line,  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet 
southward  from  the  southern  line  of  Dover  street  on  the  Plank 
road,  to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  west  of  the  western 
line  of  a  street  on  which  Mr.  John  Carter  resides,  which  is  proba- 
bly a  continuation  of  Carter  street;  thence  northwardly,  cross- 
ing the  Plank  road,  and  on  a  line  parallel  with  said  Carter  street, 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  westwardly  from  its  western  line, 
to  the  street  or  road  which  separates  the  farm  of  William  C. 
Allen  from  the  lands  of  the  Richmond  College,  and  continuing 
the  same  line  through  sundry  lots  and  the  lands  of  Nathaniel  F. 
Bowe  to  the  northern  margin  of  Bacon  branch,  one  of  the 
branches  of  Shockoe  creek;  thence  down  the  northern  margin 
of  Bacon  branch  by  its  meanders  to  the  point  where  the  present 
northern  boundary  of  the  city  crosses  the  said  branch,  at  or  near 
the  extended   line   of  Seventh   street,   on  the   map   of  the   city; 


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thence  eastwardly  with  the  present  boundary  line,  passing  the 
corner  on  said  boundary,  marked  C  on  said  map,  to  a  point  on 
the  west  side  of  the  County  road  leading  from  Valley  street  in 
said  city  to  Chelsea  or  Bowling  Green;   thence  down  the  centre 
of  said  road  southwardly  to  Seventeenth  or  Valley  street;  thence 
along    said    Seventeenth    or    Valley    street    southwardly    to    the 
County  road  leading  from  said  Seventeenth  or  Valley  street  to 
Fairfield;  thence  up  and  along  the  centre  of  said  road  eastwardly 
to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  eastward  of  the  east  line  of 
Gamble  street,  extended  northwardly,  as  the  said  street  is  laid 
down  on  the  plan  of  Brown,  Page,  and  Gamble,  commonly  called 
McKenzie's  Garden;    thence  southwardly  and  parallel  with  the 
said  Gamble,  Federal  or  Purcell  streets  one  hundred  and  fifty 
feet  eastward  of  the  eastern  lines  of  said  streets,  to  a  point  in 
said  line  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  north  of  Venable  street,  as 
marked  on  Adam's  plan;   thence  eastwardly  and  on  a  line  one 
hundred  and  fifty  feet  northward  of  the  north  line  of  Venable 
street,  and  parallel  therewith,  to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty 
feet  northward  of  the  north  line  of  Q  street;  thence  along  a  line 
eastwardly  and  parallel  with  said  Q  street,  and  one  hundred  and 
fifty  feet  therefrom,  to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  east- 
ward of  Thirty-first  street;  thence  southwardly  and  parallel  with 
Thirty-first  street,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  therefrom,  to 
a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  north  of  the  northern  line  of 
Marshall  street  on  said  plan;  thence  eastwardly  and  on  a  line  one 
hundred  and  fifty  feet  northward  of  the  north  line  of  Marshall 
street,  and  parallel  therewith,  to  a  point  on  said  line  one  hundred 
and   fifty   feet  eastward  of  Thirty-fourth   street;    thence   south- 
wardly on  a  line  parallel  with  Thirty-fourth  street,  and  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  feet  therefrom,  to  a  point  in  said  line  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  north  of  the  northern  line  of  Main  street  extended; 
thence  eastwardly  and  on  a  line  parallel  with  said  Main  street 
so  extended,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  therefrom,  until  the 
said  line  meets  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  eastward  of 
the  eastern  line  of  Fulton  street,  in  the  town  of  Fulton;   thence 
along  said  line  in  a  southwardly  direction,  and  parallel  with  said 
Fulton  street,  until  it  strikes  a  point  in  said  line  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  southwardly  of  the  south  line  of  a  street  known  as 
Orleans  street;  thence  westwardly  and  on  a  line  one  hundred  and 
fifty  feet  south  of  the  southern  line  of  said  Orleans  street,  and 
one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  therefrom  to  James  river,  and  thence 
across  said  river,  continuing  the  same  course  to  the  dividing  line 
between  the  counties  of  Henrico  and  Chesterfield. 

3.  The  inhabitants  of  the  district  of  country  lying  between 
the  present  boundary  of  the  city  and  the  new  boundary  hereby 
established,  shall  not  be  liable,  in  their  persons  or  property 
within  the  said  district,  for  the  period  of  five  years  from  the  pas- 
sage of  this  act,  for  any  portion  of  the  debt  contracted  by  the 
city  of  Richmond  prior  to  the  commencement  of  this  act,  or  of 
the  interest  due  and  accruing  thereon. 


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l.  All  taxes  levied  and  collected  upon  persons  and  property 
within  the  limits  hereby  added  to  the  city  of  Rchmond,  shall, 
for  the  period  of  three  years  from  the  passage  of  this  act,  be  ap- 
plied to  the  Improvement,  protection,  and  police  of  the  district 
so  annexed. 

5.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  sheriff  or  other  collectors  of  the 
county  of  Henrico  to  collect  and  make  distress  for  any  public 
dues  or  officers'  fees  which  shall  remain  unpaid  by  the  inhabi- 
tants embraced  within  the  limits  of  the  extension  of  the  corpora- 
tion of  the  city  of  Richmond,  at  the  time  when  this  act  shall 
commence  and  be  in  force,  and  shall  be  accountable  for  the  same 
in  like  manner  as  if  this  act  had  never  been  passed. 

6.  The  county  levy  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
seven  shall  be  collected  within  the  limits  added  to  the  city  of 
Richmond  by  this  bill,  by  the  authorities  of  Henrico  county,  and 
no  taxes  shall  be  collected  from  the  persons  or  property  within 
said  limits  by  the  authorities  of  the  city  of  Richmond  for  the 
year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-seven. 

7.  The  council  of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  provide  for  the 
representation  in  the  council  of  the  city  of  Richmond  of  the  in- 
habitants of  the  territory  embraced  in  said  extension. 

8.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  the  first  day  of 
July,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-seven. 


AN  ACT 

TO   EXTEND   THE   CORFOEATE   LIMITS   OF   THE   CITY   OF   RICHMOND. 

(Approved  February  19,  1892.) 

1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  general  assembly  of  Virginia,  That  the 
territory  hereinafter  mentioned  shall  constitute  a  portion  of  the 
city  of  Richmond,  in  addition  to  its  present  territory — to-wit: 
Beginning  at  a  point  where  the  north  line  of  Bread-street  road 
intersects  with  the  present  western  boundary  line  of  the  city  of 
Richmond;  thence  along  the  north  line  of  said  Broad-street  road 
in  a  westwardly  direction  to  the  northwest  intersection  of  said 
Broad-street  road  with  the  Boulevard;  thence  along  the  western 
line  of  the  Boulevard  to  the  southwest  intersection  of  the  Boule- 
vard with  the  Grove  road;  thence  along  the  south  line  of  the 
Grove  road  to  its  intersection  with  the  present  western  boundary 
line  of  the  city  of  Richmond;  thence  along  the  present  western 
boundary  line  of  the  city  of  Richmond  in  a  northwardly  direc- 
tion to  the  point  of  beginning. 

2.  Said  annexed  territory  shall  be  a  part  of  the  present  Clay 
ward  of  the  city  of  Richmond  until  otherwise  ordered  by  said  city. 

3.  The  city  council  of  said  city  may  make  such  improvementr 
within  said  territory  as  it  now  has  power  as  to  the  property 
within  its  present  limits.     But  no  improvement  shall  be  made  at 


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the  expense  of  the  abutting  owners  until  after  allegations  shall 
have  been  heard. 

4.  Whenever  a  permanent  improvement  of  a  street  or  alley 
within  said  territory,  such  as  opening,  grading,  guttering,  flag- 
ging, curbing,  or  paving  sidewalks  and  road-bed,  shall  be  made, 
whether  upon  petition  of  abutting  owners  or  without  petition, 
the  city  engineer  shall  ascertain  the  total  cost  of  such  improve- 
ment for  such  street  or  alley,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  im- 
proved. He  shall  then  apportion  the  costs  at  so  much  per  foot 
abutting  upon  the  streets  or  alleys,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may 
be  improved,  dividing  and  apportioning  the  costs  among  the 
owners  of  the  abutting  lots,  and  certify  the  amount  thereof  in 
each  case,  of  all  the  property  owners,  to  the  special  assessment 
clerk,  who  shall  make  out  bills  for  the  same  and  furnish  them 
to  the  city  auditor,  who  shall  make  proper  entry  thereof  on  his 
books,  and  then  place  them  in  the  hands  of  the  city  collector  to 
be  collected  and  accounted  for  in  the  manner  prescribed  for  the 
collection  of  city  taxes,  and  said  assessments  shall  be  a  lien  on 
said  lots  until  paid;  provided,  however,  that  as  to  any  improve- 
ment made  in  Broad-street  road,  Boulevard,  and  Grove  road  the 
abutting  owners  of  property  within  said  annexed  district  shall 
be  charged  with  the  entire  cost  of  improving  the  sidewalk  on 
which  they  abut,  including  guttering,  curbing,  and  flagging,  and 
one-half  of  the  cost  of  improving  the  roadway. 

5.  Repairs  and  renewals  of  streets  or  alleys  shall  be  paid  for 
in  such  manner  as  the  city  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe  as 
to  streets  and  alleys,  respectively,  within  her  present  limits. 

6.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  sheriff,  or  any  other  collectors  of 
the  county  of  Henrico,  to  collect  and  make  distress  for  any  pub- 
lic dues  or  officers'  fees  which  shall  remain  unpaid  by  the  in- 
habitants embraced  within  said  annexed  territory  at  the  time 
when  this  act  shall  commence  and  be  in  force,  and  shall  be  ac- 
countable for  the  same  in  like  manner  as  if  this  act  had  never 
been  passed. 

7.  The  taxes  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-two 
from  the  person  or  property  within  said  annexed  territory  shall 
be  due  to  and  collected  by  the  city  of  Richmond. 

8.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act  are  hereby 
repealed. 

9.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  the  date  of  its  passage. 


ERRATA. 


Board  of  Public  Interest    24"25- 

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ihstidieix: 


PAGE 

ACCOUNTS,  to  be  kept  by  auditor 16 

ADMINISTRATION    AND    GOVERNMENT    of    city    vested    in.    mayor. 

city  council,  &c 2 

AID,  to  what  societies  and  associations  council  may  grant 10 

AGRICULTURE,    council     may    grant   aid    to     societies    for     advance- 
ment of   10 

ALMSHOUSE,  power  of  council  as  to  poor  of  city 8 

its  agents  to  have  powers,  &c,  of  overseers  of  poor 8 

ANIMALS,  to  prevent  running  at  large 11 

to  punish   abuse  of 11 

ANNUAL  REPORTS,  to  be  made  by  auditor 17 

to  be  made  by  city  treasurer 19 

APPRENTICE,  penalty  on  to  be  recovered  of  master 12 

APPROPRIATIONS,  what  must  have  two-thirds  vote,  &c 7 

what  must  have  three-fourths  vote,  &c 25 

ARDENT  SPIRITS,  to  be  gauged 10 

ATTORNEY.     (See  City  Attorney.) 

ATTORNEY  FOR  THE  COMMONWEALTH,  officer  required  by  charter 

for  the  circuit  court,  and  to  prosecute  in  the  hustings 38 

AUDITOR,  officer  required  by  charter 15 

term  of  office,  &c 16 

what  books  he  shall  keep 16 

duties,  powers,  &c 16-17 

BEG  GARS,  to  restrain  and  punish 12 

BENEVOLENT  SOCIETIES,  council  may  aid 10 

BILLIARD  SALOONS,  council  may  license 27 

BOARD  OP  ALDERMEN,  a  branch  of  city  council 3-4 

may  elect  clerk  of 41 

election,  residence,  age,  terms  and  classification  of  its  members..  6 

how  vacancy  in  board  filled 6 

president;     meetings,   how  called;     rules;    when   two-thirds   vote 

required    6 

BOARD  OF  FIRE  COMMISSIONERS,  how  created,  its  duties,  etc 32-6 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH,  appointment  and  organization  of 10 

BOARD    OF    POLICE    COMMISSIONERS,    police    appointments    to    be 

under  its  control 30-33 

its  composition,  powers,   and  duties 30-33 

BONDS,  of  city  officers;  liabilities  of  parties  to 15 

of  auditor  16 

of  high-constable   39 

of  treasurer  18 


IIsTIDEX:. 


PAGE 

ACCOUNTS,  to  be  kept  by  auditor 16 

ADMINISTRATION    AND    GOVERNMENT    of    city    vested    in    mayor. 

city  council,  &c 2 

AID,  to  what  societies  and  associations  council  may  grant 10 

AGRICULTURE,    council     may    grant   aid   to     societies    for     advance- 
ment of   10 

ALMSHOUSE,  power  of  council  as  to  poor  of  city 8 

its  agents  to  have  powers,  &c,  of  overseers  of  poor 8 

ANIMALS,  to  prevent  running  at  large 11 

to  punish  abuse  of 11 

ANNUAL  REPORTS,  to  be  made  by  auditor 17 

to  be  made  by  city  treasurer 19 

APPRENTICE,  penalty  on  to  be  recovered  of  master 12 

APPROPRIATIONS,  what  must  have  two-thirds  vote,  &c 7 

what  must  have  three-fourths  vote,  &c 25 

ARDENT  SPIRITS,  to  be  gauged 10 

ATTORNEY.     (See  City  Attorney.) 

ATTORNEY  FOR  THE  COMMONWEALTH,  officer  required  by  charter 

for  the  circuit  court,  and  to  prosecute  in  the  hustings 38 

AUDITOR,  officer  required  by  charter 15 

term  of  office,  &c 16 

what  books  he  shall  keep 16 

duties,  powers,  &c 16-17 

BEGGARS,  to  restrain  and  punish 12 

BENEVOLENT  SOCIETIES,  council  may  aid 10 

BILLIARD  SALOONS,  council  may  license 27 

BOARD  OF  ALDERMEN,  a  branch  of  city  council 3-4 

may  elect  clerk  of 41 

election,  residence,  age,  terms  and  classification  of  its  members..  6 

how  vacancy  in  board  filled 6 

president;     meetings,   how   called;     rules;    when   two-thirds   vote 

required    6 

BOARD  OF  FIRE  COMMISSIONERS,  how  created,  its  duties,  etc 32-6 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH,  appointment  and  organization  of 10 

BOARD    OF    POLICE    COMMISSIONERS,    police    appointments    to    be 

under  its  control 30-33 

its  composition,  powers,   and  duties 30-33 

BONDS,  of  city  officers;  liabilities  of  parties  to 15 

of  auditor  16 

of  high-constable   39 

of  treasurer  18 


xhiii  INDEX. 

PAGS 

tor  of  cit;               l!i 

ot  sergeant   39 

of  sheriff  38 

BONFIRES   (in  streets),  to  restrain 11 

BOUNDARIES  OF  CITY,   defined 42-45 

BOULEVARD   14 

BOWLING  ALLEYS,  council  may  license 27 

BOYS,  fines  for  selling  intoxicating  drinks  to 12 

parent  or  guardian  liable  for  offence  of 12 

BRIDGES,  council   may  build,  &c,  in  streets 9 

Broad  street  road 14 

BUILDINGS,  council  may  control  erection  of  wooden 37 

may  regulate  construction  of  all  buildings 37 

to  be  destroyed  by  chief  engineer  when  danger  of  spreading  fire: 

how  appraised    37-38 

BURIAL  GROUNDS,  power  of  council  to  regulate .  10 

BURNING  FLUID,  council  may  regulate  sale  and  use  of 11 

CAMPHEXE,  to  regulate  sale  and  use  of 11 

CANDLES,  council  may  forbid  use  of  in  barns  and  stables 11 

CAPTAINS  OF  VESSELS  may  be  required  to  return  vagrants  and  dan- 
gerous persons  brought  to  city 12 

CARRIAGES,  CARTS,   &c,  FOR  HIRE,   council   may  license 27 

CEMETERIES,  power  of  council  to  provide  and  regulate 12 

CHANCERY  COURT,  sheriff  of  Richmond,  the  officer  of 40 

CHIEF  OF  POLICE,  appointment,  powers,  duties,  &c 31 

CIRCUIT  COURT,  to  have  jurisdiction  in  enforcing  terms  of  bonds  of 

city  officers    15 

clerk  of,  how7  elected 38 

sheriff  to  be  officer  of 40 

CITIZENS'  VOTE,  in  reference  to  certain  appropriations -  25 

CITY  ATTORNEY,  officer  required  by  charter 15 

appointment,  term,  duties,  &c 22-23 

CITY  BONDS,  exempt  from  taxation 26 

CITY  CLERK,  office  required  by  charter 15 

certificates  of  oaths  of  office  filed  with  him 4 

to  notify  vacating  officers,  to  deliver  books,  &c 15 

appointment,  term  and  duties 24 

CITY  COUNCIL,  to  provide  representation  in  its  body  for  district  added 

by  act  of  1867 44 

to  be  divided  into  two  branches;  terms  of  members  of  each.    3 

vacancies,  how  filled 6 

president  and  president  pro  tempore,  duties,  meetings  of  bodies, 

rules,  officers,  journal,  quorum 6-7 

what  ordinances  not  to  be  passed  by  council  same  day 7 

may  contract  loans 25 

general  powers  as  to  markets,  workhouses  and  house  of  correction; 

powers  as  to  specific  subjects 8-9 

may  raise  money  by  taxation 25 

may  issue  certificates  of  debt,  contract  loans,  &c '    25 

may  build  railroad  along  James  River  canal  to  Clifton  Forge 25 


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CITY  DEBT,  limit  of 25 

sinking  fund;    how  provided;    to  be  applied  to  principal  of  city- 
debt   26 

inhabitants  of  new  district  not  liable  for  city  debt  for  five  years. .  43 

how  loans  contracted  and  bonds  issued 25 

CITY  OFFICERS,  vacation  of  office  by;    to  deliver  books  and  papers 

to  successors  15 

salaries  of  15 

other  officers  may  be  appointed  by  council 15 

CITY  PRISON,  powers  of  council  as  to 8 

CITY  SERGEANT,  how  elected,  term,  bond,  powers,  and  duties 39 

CLERKS  OF  COURTS,  election,  compensation  and  term 38 

COAL  AND  COKE,  council  may  regulate  transportation  of 11 

COLLECTOR  OF  CITY  TAXES,  office  required  by  charter 15 

his  election,  term,  bond,  power  and  duties 20 

council  may  vest  him  with  powers  of  collector  of  State  taxes 27 

he  shall  publish  sale  of  real  estate  for  taxes 28 

what  may  be  distrained  for  taxes 27 

mode  of  proceeding  against  collector  for  failure  to  perform  his 

duties   27 

power  to  collect  water  and  gas  bills 27 

mortgage,  &c,  of  goods  not  to  prevent  distress 27 

COMBUSTIBLE  MATERIAL,  council  may  regulate  sale  and  use  of 11 

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  council  may  license 10 

COMMISSIONER  OF  THE  REVENUE,  office  required  by  charter 15 

his  election,  term,  powers,  duties,  &c 21 

COMMONWEALTH'S  ATTORNEY,   required  by  charter 38 

COMMON  COUNCIL,  a  branch  of  city  council 3 

city  clerk  to  attend  its  meetings 24 

CONSTABLE,  powers  of,  may  be  given  what  members  of  police  force..  32 

CORPORATE  NAME  OF  CITY 3 

CULVERTS,  engineer  to  be  superintendent  of , 23 

DEBT  OF  CITY  (see  City  Debt),  when  city  may  endorse  bonds  of  inter- 
nal improvement  company 25 

DEED,  to  purchaser  of  land  sold  for  taxes 29 

to  be  recorded 29 

DEEDS,  auditor  to  have  charge  of 16 

DISABILITY,  rights  of  persons  under  disability  to  redeem  land  sold  for 

taxes ;  how  saved 29 

DISEASES,  power  of  council  as  to  infections,  &c 10 

DISORDERLY  ASSEMBLAGES,  to  prevent 12 

DISORDERLY  CONDUCT,  power  to  prevent  and  punish 12 

DISTRESS  FOR  TAXES,  all  goods  subject  to;  trust  or  mortgage  no  bar.  27 

DISTURBANCES,  to  prevent   12 

DOCKET,  to  be  kept  by  city  attorney 23 

DOCKS,  power  of  council  as  to 8-9 

DOGS,  to  prevent  running  at  large 11 

DRAWINGS,  to  be  made  by  city  engineer 23 

DRAYS,  power  of  council  as  to  licenses 27 

DRUNKARDS,  to  restrain  and  punish 12 


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ELECTIONS,  special;    how  ordered 4 

time  of  charter  elections 4 

to  supply  vacancies 4 

by  council  to  fill  vacancies 15 

of  city  officers 39 

lal,  through  whom  ordered,  by  council  and  how  held 4 

of  mayor,  for  what  term 5 

of  members  of  city  council 6 

to  supply  vacancy  in  council 6 

of  auditor 15 

of  treasurer  18 

of  collector  of  city  taxes 19 

of  commissioner  of  revenue 21 

clerks  of  circuit,  hustings  and  chancery  courts 38 

commonwealth's  attorney  for  circuit  and  hustings  court 38 

sheriff , 38 

sergeant    39 

high-constable  39 

justices  of  peace 40 

EMPLOYMENT  of  persons  in  jail 8 

ENCROACHMENT  on  streets 13 

ENGINEER  OF  CITY,  office  required  by  charter 28 

appointment;   term,  bond,  and  duties 23 

EVIDENCE,  use  of  ordinances 13 

EXHIBITIONS,  power  to  prevent  lewd  exhibitions  in  city 12 

EXPENSES  OF  CITY  GOVERNMENT,  how  funds  raised  for 26 

FAIRS,  council  may  aid 10 

FARMERS,  may  send  hay,  &c,  to  city  not  taxed 10 

FAST  RIDING  OR  DRIVING,  council  may  prevent 11 

FILTH,  power  to  prevent  accumulation  of 11 

FINES  AND  PENALTIES,  limit  of  penalty  to  be  imposed  by  council..  12 
penalty  imposed  on  minor,  recovered  of  parent  or  guardian;    on 

apprentice  of  master  or  mistress 12 

what  publication  required  of  ordinance  imposing  penalty 13 

forfeiture  if  vacating  officer  fail  to  deliver  in  time  books,  papers, 

&c,  of  the  office 15 

for  not  removing  fence,  &c,  encroaching  on  street  when  ordered 

by  council 13 

FIREARMS,  to  regulate  discharge  of 11 

FIRE-CRACKERS,   to  regulate  sale  of 11 

FIRE  COMMISSIONERS   33-6 

FIRE  AND  FIRE-ALARM  DEPARTMENT,  power  of  council  to  organ- 
ize, &c 33 

FIRE-WORKS,  regulations  concerning 11 

FORFEITURE  OF  OFFICE,  by  neglect  to  qualify 4 

FORAGE,  may  provide  for  weighing  long  forage 10 

FREEHOLDERS,  vote  required  of  in  certain  cases 25 

GAMING  HOUSES,  power  to  suppress 12 

GAS,  council  may  vest  in  collector  power  to  collect  for 19-27 


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GAS-WORKS,  power  of  council  as  to 9 

GOOD  ORDER,  council  to  preserve 2 

GRAIN,  council  may  provide  for  measuring 10 

GROUNDS  AND  BUILDINGS,  council  may  erect,  regulate,  &c 9 

buildings,  parks,  and  squares 9 

Grove  avenue   14 

GUNPOWDER,  power  to  regulate  storing  of 11 

HACKS,  council  may  grant  licenses 27 

HAWKERS  AND  PEDDLERS,  council  may  license 27 

HAY,  as  to  weighing  of,  &c 10 

HEALTH,  power  of  council  as  to  board  of 10 

to  establish  quarantine 11 

HENRICO  COUNTY,  liabilities  of  inhabitants  as  to  certain  city  taxes..  44 

HIGH-CONSTABLE,  election,  term,  compensation,  powers,  and  duties..  39 

HOGS,  to  prevent  running  at  large,  &c,  being  kept  in  city 11 

HORSES,  to  prevent  riding  or  driving  at  improper  speed 11 

HOSPITAL,  power  of  council  to  establish  and  move  patients  to 10 

HOUSES  OF  CORRECTION,  may  be  provided  by  council 8 

HOUSES  OF  ILL  FAME,  power  to  suppress 12 

HUSTINGS  COURT,  clerk  of,  how  elected 38 

sergeant  to  be  officer  of 39 

commonwealth's  attorney  to  practice  in ' 38 

ILL  FAME,  power-  of  council  to  suppress  houses  of 12 

IMMORALITY,  power  of  council  to  prevent 12 

IMPRISONMENT,  power  of  council  as  to 12 

INDECENT  CONDUCT,   power  to  prevent 12 

INFANTS  AND  INSANE  PERSONS,   how  may  redeem  land  sold  for 

taxes  29 

INSURANCE  COMPANIES,  council  may  license 27 

INTERNAL  IMPROVEMENTS,  three-fourths  vote  of  citizens  necessary 

for   certain   appropriations 25 

JAIL.     (See  City  Prison). 

JAMES  RIVER  AND  KANAWHA  COMPANY,   council  may   purchase 

franchises  of  25 

JOINT  MEETINGS  OF  COUNCIL,  officers  to  be  chosen  in  such  meetings  41 

JUDGES  OF  COURTS  to  issue  writs  of  election  to  municipal  office 4 

JUSTICES  OF  THE  PEACE,  their  election,   designation,   &c 40 

KEROSENE  OIL,  council  to  regulate  sale  and  use  of 11 

KITES,  to  prevent  the  flying  of 11 

LANDINGS,  WHARVES,  &c,  power  of  council  relative  to 8 

LEVYING  TAXES,  as  to  district  added  in  1867 44 

LEWD  EXHIBITIONS,  power  to  prevent 12 

LIBRARIES,  council  may  aid 10 

LICENSES,  power  to  issue  or  refuse 27 

LIGHTS,  use  of  in  barns,  stables,  &c 11 

LITERARY  SOCIETIES,   council   may  aid 10 

LIQUORS,  license  to  sell 27 

MARKETS,  council  may  establish,  &c 8 

MARRIED  WOMEN,  right  to  redeem  land  sold  for  taxes 29 


lii  INDKX. 

p  Las 

mayor,  office  created  by  charter;  head  of  government 3 

how  elected;    powers  and  duties 5 

communication  to  city  council;  vacancies,  how  filled 5-6 

duty  as  to  ordinances  and  joint  resolutions 41 

who  shall  act  as  mayor,  &c,  in  his  absence 6 

may  suspend  member  of  police  force 32 

to  be  president  of  board  of  police  commissioners,  &c 30 

powers  over  subordinate  officers 5 

MEASURING,  council  may  provide  for  grain,  &c 10 

MECHANIC  ARTS,  council  may  grant  aid  for  advancement  of 10 

MENDICANTS,  to  restrain 12 

MERCHANTS,  sealing  weights  and  measures 12 

MILITARY  COMPANIES,  council  may  grant  aid  to 10 

MINORS,  council  may  impose  fines  for  selling  liquor  to 12 

MOLASSES,  council  may  require  to  be  gauged  and  inspected 10 

NEWSPAPERS,  commissioner's  schedule  to  be  published  in 22 

NITRO-GLYCERINE,  council  may  regulate  sale  and  use  of 11 

NUISANCES,    power  to   abate;    assessments  for  removal   of   power   of 

council  as  to  stagnant  water 11 

OATHS   OF   OFFICE,   of  mayor  and   members   of   council;    neglect   to 

take,  &c 4 

OFFICERS,  required  by  charter 15 

additional  officers  and  clerks 15 

OIL,  council  may  require  inspected  and  gauged 10 

ORDINANCES,  &c,  how  passed,  signed,  &c 41 

what  requires  two-thirds  vote 7 

what  must  not  be  passed  same  day  by  both  branches 7 

penalty-ordinances  to  be  published 13 

use  of  in  evidence 13 

OVERSEERS  OF  POOR,  powers  of  officers  managing  poor  of  city S 

PARKS  (see  Grounds  and  Buildings). 

PEDDLERS,  council  may  license 27 

PENALTIES,  power  of  council  as  to 12 

PJSTOL  GALLERIES,  council  may  license 27 

PLANS  AND  SPECIFICATIONS,  to  be  made  by  city  engineer 23 

POLICE  DEPARTMENT,  controlled  by  board  of  commissioners 31 

how  composed 30 

powers  and  duties  of 30-31 

classification  and  grading  of  men  of  force 30 

authority  of  chief  of  police 31 

additional  policemen    31 

suspension  of  officers  and  men  by  mayor 32 

pay  and  duties  of  officers  and  men 32 

uniform  and  badges  for  the  force 33 

POLICE  JUSTICE,  appointment,  term,  powers  and  duties 40 

POOR,  council  may  provide  for,  &c 8 

PORT- WARDENS,  power  of  council  for  appointment  of 9 

POWDER.     (See  Powder  Magazines). 

POWDER  MAGAZINES,  council  may  regulate  location  of 11 


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PRESIDENT   OF   BOARD  OF   ALDERMEN,   powers,    &c,    in   absence 

of  mayor  5 

election,  &c 6 

to  preside  in  joint  meeting  of  the  two  branches 41 

PRESIDENT  OF  CITY  COUNCIL.     (See  President  of  Board  of  Alder- 
men). 

PRESIDENT  OF  COMMON  COUNCIL,  powers,  duties,  &c 6 

PRISON    council  may  erect  a 8 

PRIVATE  PROPERTY;   how  taken  for  streets,  &c 13 

PUBLIC  BUILDINGS,  engineer  to  be  superintendent  of 23 

council  may  erect,  &c 8 

PUBLICATION,  of  penal  ordinances 13 

by  commissioner  of  revenue  of  his  schedule 22 

PUBLIC  FREE  SCHOOLS,  council  may  aid 10 

PUBLIC  LIBRARIES.     (See  Libraries). 

PUBLIC  PEACE,  council  to  preserve 12 

PUBLIC  SQUARES,  power  of  council  as  to 8 

QUARANTINE,  power  to  establish • 11 

RAILROAD,   council   may   build   along  line  of   James   River   canal   to 

Clifton  Forge  25 

council  may  authorize  laying  down  of  tracks 9 

power  of  council  as  to  railroad  in  city 9 

requirements  as  to  vagrants  and  thieves  brought  to  city 12 

REAL  ESTATE,  lien  on  for  taxes 27 

to  be  sold  for  non-payment  of  taxes 28 

when  city  may  become  purchaser 28 

REDEMPTION  of  land  sold  for  taxes 28 

REFORMATION,  council  may  provide  houses  of 8 

REMOVAL  of  officers  by  city  council 15 

RESOLUTIONS,  how  signed,  &c 41 

RIOTS,  council  may  prevent  and  quell 12 

SALARIES,  to  be  fixed  by  council  or  act  of  assembly 15 

SALE  OF  LAND  for  taxes 27-28 

SALE  OF  BARTER,  council  may  provide  for  certain  articles 10 

SAMPLE  MERCHANTS,  council  may  license 27 

SCHOOLS,  council  may  aid  public 10 

SEAL  OF  CITY,  treasurer  to  be  keeper 18 

SERGEANT  OF  CITY,  election,  term,  compensation  and  bond 34 

to  have  same  powers  of  sheriff,  except  as  to  collection  of  taxes. ...  39 

to  be  officer  of  the  hustings  court 40 

SEWERS,  CULVERTS,  &c,  council  may  construct  under  streets 9 

SHERIFF,  how  elected,  term,  &c 38 

SHOWS,  EXHIBITIONS,  &c,  council  may  license,  &c 27 

SINKING  FUND,  how  to  be  created,  &c 20 

SLAUGHTER-HOUSES,  council  may  prevent  or  regulate 11 

SOAP  AND  CANDLE  FACTORIES,  council  may  prevent  or  regulate..  11 
SPIRITUOUS    LIQUORS,   council   may   require   to   be   gauged    and    in- 
spected    10 

may  license  sale  of 27 


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may  forbid  Bales  to  Children  and  young  persons 12 

may  require  additional  taxes  on 27 

SPORTS,  dangerous  to  passengers;  council  may  prevent 11 

SQU  IRES  (PUBLIC),  council  may  lay  out,  ornament,  &c 8 

STAGNANT  WATER,  as  to  abatement  of 11 

STI  ».\  ES,  throwing  of 11 

STREET  RA1 LKOAD,  power  of  council  relative  to 9 

STREETS,  power  of  council  as  to 9 

work  on  not  to  be  stopped  by  injunction 9 

council  may  prevent  cumbering  of 9 

as  to  railway  tracks  through 9 

as  to  encroachments  on 12 

what  use  make  streets  public,  &c 14 

how  new  streets  and  improvements  paid  for 14 

superintendent  of  23 

to  restrain  bonfires  in 11 

obstruction  of  by  persons  engaged  in  sports 11 

private  property,'  how  taken  for 13 

SURVEYS,  to  be  made  by  city  engineer 23 

SUSPENSIONS  AND  REMOVALS  BY  MAYOR 5 

TAXES,  as  to  improvement  of  district  added  by  act  of  1867 44 

taxes  then  levied  and  unpaid  collected  for  county 44 

other  charter  provisions  as  to 20,  22,  26,  29 

real  estate  to  be  sold  for  payment  of 28 

goods  and  chattels  liable  for 27 

TEN-PIN  ALLEYS,  council  may  license 27 

TENANT,  when  to  be  credited  on  rent  for  taxes  paid 27 

TERRITORY  OF  CITY 42-45 

THEATRICAL  PERFORMANCES,  council  may  license 27 

THREE-FOURTHS  VOTE  OF  CITIZENS  as  to  appropriations  by  council 

for  internal  improvements 25 

THROWNG  STONES,  council   may  prevent 11 

TIRES,  council  may  regulate  breadth  of 9 

TREASURER,  office  required  by  charter 15 

his  election,  term,  bond,  powers  and  duties 18-19 

UNHEALTHY  BUSINESS,  power  to  prevent  or  regulate 11 

UNWHOLESOME  SUBSTANCES,  power  to  remove  and  destroy 11 

VACANCIES,  how  filled 4 

VACATION  OF  OFFICE,  requirements  of  officers  as  to 15 

VAGRANTS,  &c,  power  of  council  as  to 12 

VETO-POWER,  how  exercised  by  mayor 41 

VICE  AND  IMMORALITY,  power  to  prevent  and  punish 12 

VINEGAR,  council  may  require  to  be  gauged 10 

VIRGINIA  STATE  AGRICULTURAL  SOCIETY 33 

VOTE  OF  CITIZENS,  three-fourths,  and  majority  of  freeholders  required 

in  certain  cases 25 

WAGONS,  DRAYS,  CARTS  AND  HACKS  to  be  licensed 27 

council  may  prescribe  breadth  of  tires 9 

WARDS  OF  CITY,  division  into  required  by  charter 3 

to  contain  equal  numbers  of  voters,  &c 4 


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WATER-WORKS,  powers  of  council  relative  to 8 

as  to  pollution  of  water 8 

council  may  vest  in  collector  power  to  collect  water-rent 27 

WEIGHING  LONG  FORAGE,  council  may  provide  for 10 

WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES  to  be  sealed 10 

WHARVES,  powers  of  council  as  to 8 

WINE,  &c,  council  may  license  sale  of 27 

WIPE'S  PROPERTY,  redemption  of  land  sold  for  taxes;  how  saved...  29 

WOODEN  BUILDINGS,  council  may  control  erection  of 37 

WORKHOUSES,  council  may  establish 8 

YEAS  AND  NAYS,  requirements  of  charter  as  to  council 7 


This  book  is  DUE  on  the  last  date  stamped  below 


Form  L-9-15m-7,'32 


Richmond, Va. 


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1898  The  charter  of 
the  city  of 
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